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.

Rational Publishing Engine licenses are floating or user-based and does not support node-locked licenses.

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 1.1.2.1 and 1.1.2.2

You must install and configure IBM Rational Common Licensing V8.1.x. For more information about installing and configuring Rational Common Licensing V8.1.x, see Configure the Rational License Key Server.

Rational Publishing Engine 1.1.2 and earlier

You must install and configure one of the following license servers:

For more information about downloading and installing Rational License Server Telelogic V2.0.0, see Installing Rational License Server Telelogic V2.0.0. For more information about installing and configuring Rational Common Licensing V8.1.x, see Configure the Rational License Key Server.

License requirements for web services

Rational Publishing Engine licenses can either be floating user-based licenses or authorized user-based licenses. Rational Publishing Engine web services can consume only floating licenses. If only authorized user-based licenses are purchased, Rational Publishing Engine web services 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 authors, who are assigned the task of designing 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 document generation is in progress.
  • Whenever a report author has Document Studio open.
Note: Multiple Document Studio instances or document generations started on the same computer consume a single 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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