Purchasing and enabling licenses

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. If you have already purchased a full license and your trial license is about to expire, you must enable your full license to activate your product.
Note: Trial licenses that came with the 7.0 and later versions of some Rational products expire 30 or 60 days after installation. You need to activate your product in order to use it after the expiration date. See this support article on product activation for a flow chart of the activation process.
Note: Some 7.0 and later versions of Rational products require an upgraded version of the Rational License Server. See this support article for license upgrade information.

There are two ways to license and activate your product:

To purchase licenses and enable your product, complete the following steps:

  1. Determine the type of license you want to purchase.
  2. 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.
  3. Depending on the type of license you purchased, use the Proof of Entitlement that you received when you purchased the product, 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 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."

      For detailed information on finding and downloading the activation kit for your product, see your product Installation Guide.

    • 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 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.

To import the activation kit or enable Floating license support for your product, use the Manage Licenses wizard in the IBM Installation Manager.

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