User licenses

IBM® Rational® Project Conductor is available with different licensing options to suit different usage levels.

By default, when you install Rational Project Conductor, a total of 250 trial Client Access Licenses are available. The trial licenses have limited validity. You must acquire a product activation kit with permanent licenses to use the product after the trial license expiration date.

Note: Derby user limit: When using a Derby database to store the repository, there is a 10-user limit.
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Client Access Licenses

Rational Project Conductor provides two Client Access License types for using Rational Project Conductor features, and a separate ClearQuest Connector Client Access License for using the ClearQuest Connector feature. One of the two Rational Project Conductor Client Access Licenses must be assigned to a user in order to use Rational Project Conductor.

The types of Rational Project Conductor Client Access Licenses and the associated permissions are described in the table below.

Table 1. Client Access Licenses
Client Access License Description
No Client Access License
  • No access to any data or capabilities
Project team
  • Project team members have read-only access to all capabilities
  • Project team members have the following write permissions, unless otherwise restricted by process permissions:
    • Edit and save their own timesheet
    • Edit work items (except creating dependencies, updating constraints, and removing work items)
    • Create and run work item queries
    • Edit their own task assignments, so long as the project assignments are not modified
    • Edit their own profile information - skill assignments, competency assignments, calendar assignment, and calendar exceptions
  • Project Team Client Access Licenses are available as authorized licenses only.
  • Trial Project Team Client Access Licenses count against the server limit. Permanent Project Team Client Access Licenses do not count against the server limit.
Project manager
  • Project manager has read access to all capabilities
  • Project manager has write access to all capabilities, unless otherwise restricted by process permissions
  • Intended for project managers, resource managers and administrators
  • Project Manager Client Access Licenses are available both as authorized and floating licenses
  • Project Manager Client Access Licenses count against the server limit
ClearQuest connector
  • The ClearQuest Connector Client Access License is for assignment only to the single user ID being used by the ClearQuest Connector. The capabilities are restricted to only those capabilities needed by the ClearQuest Connector.
  • This license does not count against the server limit
Note: If you are using the trial licenses, the total number of unique users assigned Rational Project Conductor trial Client Access Licenses cannot exceed the server limit of 250 users.

Authorized Client Access License

An IBM Rational Authorized User license permits a single, specific individual to use a Rational software product. Purchasers must obtain an Authorized User license for each individual user who accesses the product in any manner. An Authorized User license cannot be reassigned unless the purchaser replaces the original assignee on a long-term or permanent basis.

For example, if you purchase one Authorized User license, you can assign that license to one specific individual, who can then use the Rational software product. The Authorized User license does not entitle a second person to use that product at any time, even if the licensed individual is not actively using it.

Floating Client Access Licenses

An IBM Rational Floating license is a license for a single software product that can be shared among multiple team members; however, the total number of concurrent users cannot exceed the number of floating licenses you purchase. To use floating licenses, you must obtain floating license keys and install them on a License Server. The server responds to end-user requests for access to the license keys; it will grant access to the number of concurrent users that matches the number of licenses the organization purchased.

A floating Client Access License (CAL) enables multiple users to share the same CAL. For example, if two users only occasionally use Rational Project Conductor, such as once or twice a day to enter timesheets, then those users can share a floating CAL instead of purchasing two separate permanent CALs. A single server can administer and monitor CAL purchase counts and usage, and distribute CALs to more than one Jazz™ Team Server.

A user who is assigned a floating CAL can only use the supported CAL functions if there is an available copy of a CAL. For example, if a server administrator purchases three floating Contributor CALs and assigns them to five users, then only three users can use the CALs at the same time. CAL usage starts when a user performs their first server operation that requires the CAL. A user holds the CAL until 2 hours after their last server operation. If a user acquires a CAL at 9 AM and edits work items until 9:24 AM, then the user holds the CAL until 11:24 AM.

You can simplify floating CAL usage administration and tracking by using a single server to distribute all floating CALs in a multiple Jazz Team Server environment. Select a server that can hold the floating CALs, such as an existing server that runs as a Jazz Team Server and floating CAL server. After installing floating CALs on a server, you can use the Admin Web UI to configure other servers to point to the floating CAL server, then those servers can assign and use the floating CALs.

Note: The floating license server supports only http connections, and not https (secure connections).

To determine whether to install a new server to only manage floating CALs or to re-use an existing Jazz Team Server as a CAL server, consider the following:


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