Licenses for Rational® Software Development Platform offerings are enabled in two ways:
Product activation kits contain the permanent license key for your trial IBM Rational product. You purchase, download to your local workstation, and then import the activation kit to enable the license for your product. You import the activation kit to your product using the IBM Installation Manager for the Rational Software Development Platform.
If you later uninstall a product, for example, to move it to another workstation, then you have considerations for how to handle any permanent license keys that are installed.
Optionally, you can obtain floating license keys, install IBM Rational License Server, and enable Floating license enforcement for your product. Floating license enforcement provides the following benefits:
For more information on obtaining activation kits and Floating licenses, see Purchasing licenses.
If you uninstall a package, for example, in order to move the installation to another workstation, any permanent license key for the package that you imported will also be removed. In cases where you will be reinstalling the product on the same workstation or installing the product on another workstation, you will need the activation kit to import the license key and agreement to the new installation location.
If you have uninstalled a product, reinstalled the product, and do not have the original activation kit, download the product activation kit from Passport Advantage and import the license key.