You can purchase new licenses if your current product license is
about to expire or if you want to acquire additional product licenses for
team members.
You have two ways to license and activate your product:
To purchase licenses and enable your product, complete the following
steps:
- Determine the type of license you want to purchase.
- Go to ibm.com or contact your IBM sales representative to purchase
the product license. For details, visit the IBM Web page on How to buy software.
- Depending on the type of license you purchased, use the Proof of
Entitlement you received and do one of the following to enable your product:
- If you purchased Authorized User licenses for your product, go to Passport Advantage and follow the instructions there
for downloading your product activation kit. For example, to obtain a single
user entitlement for IBM Rational Software Architect,
you would download "Activation Kit for Rational Software Architect V7.0 product."
- If you purchased Floating licenses for you product, click the link
to the IBM Rational Licensing and Download site, login (IBM
registration is required), and then select the link to connect to the IBM
Rational License Key Center. There you can use your Proof of Entitlement to
obtain floating license keys for your license server.
Optionally, you can
also go to Passport Advantage to download the activation kit for your product.
After importing the activation kit to your product, you have the option of
switching from a Floating to a Permanent license type if you are using your
PC offline for long periods.
Now, if you want to import the activation kit or enable Floating
license support for your product, use the Manage Licenses wizard in the IBM Installation Manager for the Rational Software Development Platform.