License requirements

You must have a license for IBM® Rational® Publishing Engine and licenses for all the product sources to use with Rational Publishing Engine.

Overview

  • You are not required to install a license server on every computer that is using Rational Publishing Engine. Install the license server on one server and distribute license keys to the Rational Publishing Engine users.
  • Rational Publishing Engine licenses are floating or user-based. Node-locked licenses cannot be used.
  • Temporary licenses are available for evaluation purposes, but cannot be used in conjunction with permanent user-based or floating licenses.
  • Local document generation consumes one license at a time and remote document generation consumes two licenses at a time.

License requirements for the Web Services application

Rational Publishing Engine licenses can either be floating user-based licenses or authorized user-based licenses. The Rational Publishing Engine Web Services application can consume floating licenses, but not authorized licenses. If only authorized user-based licenses are purchased, the Web Services application cannot use them, and document generation fails.

Example

You have 10 floating keys. With a floating key, users can share licenses from a common pool. Five users are report designers, who are assigned the task of authoring and creating document templates. 10 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 remote document generation is in progress
  • Whenever a client application is open
Note: Multiple Document Studio instances or local document generations started on the same computer consume a single license. Remote document generation consumes a second license.
You are 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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