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:
- 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 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.