License enablement

If you are installing Rational® Programming Patterns for the first time or want to extend a license to continue using it, you have options on how to enable licensing.

Licenses are enabled in the following two ways:
  • Importing a product activation kit
  • Enabling Rational Common Licensing to obtain access to floating license keys

Product activation kits contain permanent or term license keys. You purchase the activation kit, download the activation kit .zip file to your local workstation, and then import the activation kit .jar file to enable the license. Use IBM® Installation Manager to import the activation kit to your product.

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:
  • License compliance enforcement across the organization
  • Fewer license purchases

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