License information for IBM i Access for Web

IBM® i Access for Web is a licensed program. All components of IBM i Access for Web require an IBM i Access Family (5770-XW1) license before you can use them. The license requirements are in the IBM International Program License Agreement included with IBM i Access Family (5770-XW1).

Important: A software license key is required for IBM i Access Family 5770-XW1. IBM i Access is included on the Keyed Stamped Media that comes with all IBM i software orders. You receive a license key if you order 5770-XW1. If you have not ordered 5770-XW1, you can evaluate the product from the keyed stamped media for 70 days. At the end of the 70-day evaluation period, the product is disabled if you have not ordered the product and received a software license key. The software license key is an 18-digit authorization code that allows the software product and feature on the keyed stamped media to be used on a specified system.

Licensing is managed at the IBM i Access Family (5770-XW1) level, not at the individual client level. Therefore, any combination of the IBM i Access for Windows, IBM i Access for Web, and IBM i Access for Linux® clients is allowable up to the license limit. Customers who acquire IBM i Access licenses are entitled to use the IBM i Access for Windows, IBM i Access for Web, and IBM i Access for Linux clients in any combination.

To determine the IBM i Access Family usage limit:

  1. Type the WRKLICINF command on the system to which you intend to connect. A list of products appears.
  2. Type a 5 in the entry field next to the product 5770XW1 Base, Feature 5050. The details for the IBM i Access Family, including the usage limit is displayed. The usage limit must equal the number of licenses that are purchased for the IBM i Access Family. Any number exceeding the purchased limit violates the IBM license agreement.
To update the usage limit for the 5770-XW1 product on your system, follow these steps:
  1. Enter the WRKLICINF command on the system to which you intend to connect. A list of products appears.
  2. Enter 2 in the entry field next to the product 5770XW1 V7, Feature 5050. Change the usage limit to the number of licenses that you have purchased for IBM i Access. If you have purchased the processor-based option for IBM i Access, enter the value *NOMAX for usage limit. Entering any number that exceeds the purchased limit violates the IBM license agreement.
To enter the license key information, follow these steps:
  1. Enter the WRKLICINF command on the system to which you intend to connect. A list of products appears.
  2. Enter 1 in the entry field next to the product 5770XW1 V7R1M0, Feature 5101. Enter the license key information.
    Notes: ADDLICKEY values for Usage Limit and Processor Group for Feature 5101:
    • Always enter the value *NOMAX in the Usage Limit field for Feature 5101. The usage limit value *NOMAX is required as part of the software key. The value *NOMAX is not a representation of the number of users licensed under a user-based license.
    • For a user-based license, enter the value *ANY in the Processor Group field. A processor-based license has a processor group value that corresponds to the processor group licensed.

WebSphere Application Server or integrated Web application server

IBM i Access for Web running under WebSphere® Application Server or integrated Web application server is licensed by the number of concurrently active HTTP sessions. How sessions behave depends on the browser's implementation. For example, each new instance of Internet Explorer results in a new session, thus a new, unique license is used for each instance of Internet Explorer. Each new instance of Mozilla uses the same session, therefore, only one license is used.

IBM i Access for Web expires licenses at five minute intervals. The license is released for a session that is idle for more than five minutes. Activity (retrieving a new Web page) after the license has expired results sin a new license being used. For example, when a user uses IBM i Access for Web to request some data from IBM i, a license is retrieved and "held" by the session. If the browser is then left idle for five to ten minutes, the license being used for the session is released. When another action is performed to IBM i Access for Web from this browser, a new license is requested and used.

Note: Only activity to IBM i Access for Web would result in a license being used. Browsing other Web sites in the same browser window would not result in a new license being requested.

Portal environment

The IBM i Access portlets running under a portal environment can be used one or more times on a page, or across multiple pages. Each instance of a portlet is configured to connect to a system with a specific IBM i user profile. A license is used for each unique system and user profile combination within a portal session.

A license is requested when a page containing configured IBM i Access portlets is visited. A license is requested for each portlet only if a license for the configured system and user profile has not been requested during this portal session. Licenses are held until the portal session ends.