License requirements

Make sure that you have a license for IBM® Rational® Publishing Engine and licenses for all the product sources that you want to use with Rational Publishing Engine.
You must install and configure one of the following license servers: Rational Publishing Engine licenses are floating or user-based and does not support node locked licenses.

For more information about downloading and installing Rational License Server Telelogic V2.0.0, see Installing Rational License Server Telelogic V2.0.0. For more information about downloading and installing Rational Common Licensing V8.1, see Installing Rational Common License Server V8.1.

Note: The Rational Publishing Engine Web Service can consume only floating licenses. If only user-based licenses are available, Rational Publishing Engine Web Services cannot consume the licenses and therefore cannot generate documents.

Example

Assume that you have 10 floating keys. With a floating key, users can share licenses from a common pool. Five users are report authors, who are assigned the task of designing and creating document templates. Ten other users can generate documents based on the templates that are provided to them by the report authors. These 15 users share ten license keys.

A license key is consumed in the following scenarios:
  • Whenever a document generation is in progress.
  • Whenever a report author has Document Studio open.
Note: Multiple Document Studio instances or document generations started on the same machine will consume a single license.

You will be prompted to enter a license key to connect to the license server in both these instances. See Connecting to a license server.


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