Understanding license usage order

Description of the order in which licenses are requested.
An IBM Rational® product that uses IBM Rational Common Licensing (powered by FLEXlm software) requests licenses in this order, by default:
  1. Authorized user before a floating license. An IBM Rational product requests a authorized user license before a floating license regardless of whether it is a suite or point-product license.
  2. Point-product license before a suite license. For example, IBM Rational Purify® is sold as part of a IBM Rational Suite® and as a stand-alone product. Among a group of authorized user and floating licenses, Purify will first request a Purify license, and then request various Rational Suite licenses in a specific order.
  3. Suite license of the last Rational Suite installed.

The license key usage order has changed for version 7.x of IBM Rational products. In releases before 7.x, when a suite product was being installed, the Rational License Key Administrator (LKAD) application would first try to find a license key corresponding to the Suite. If the suite key was not available, LKAD would then look for a key corresponding to the product that was started.

You can use the License Usage Mapper in LKAD to change the release 7.x license usage order or have the application not search for any or all suite keys.

Table 1 describes the default license usage order for each Rational product that uses Rational Common Licensing (powered by FLEXlm software).

Table 1. Default license usage order
IBM Rational product Default search order (from first to last)
ClearCase® ClearCase
ClearCase LT ClearCase LT, Rational Suite Enterprise, Rational Suite Team Unifying Platform™, Rational Suite DevelopmentStudio, Rational Suite TestStudio®, Rational Suite AnalystStudio®, Rational Suite DevelopmentStudio RealTime
ClearQuest® ClearQuest, Rational Suite Enterprise, Rational Suite Team Unifying Platform, Rational Suite DevelopmentStudio, Rational Suite TestStudio, Rational Suite AnalystStudio, Rational Suite DevelopmentStudio RealTime
ProjectConsole™ ProjectConsole, Rational Suite Enterprise, Rational Suite Team Unifying Platform, Rational Suite DevelopmentStudio, Rational Suite TestStudio, Rational Suite AnalystStudio, Rational Suite DevelopmentStudio RealTime
Purify Purify, PurifyPlus™, Rational Suite Enterprise, Rational Suite TestStudio, Rational Suite DevelopmentStudio, Rational Suite DevelopmentStudio RealTime
PurifyPlus PurifyPlus, Rational Suite Enterprise, Rational Suite DevelopmentStudio, Rational Suite DevelopmentStudio RealTime
Quantify® Quantify, PurifyPlus, Rational Suite Enterprise, Rational Suite TestStudio, Rational Suite DevelopmentStudio, Rational Suite DevelopmentStudio RealTime
PureCoverage® PureCoverage, PurifyPlus, Rational Suite Enterprise, Rational Suite TestStudio, Rational Suite DevelopmentStudio, Rational Suite DevelopmentStudio RealTime
RequisitePro® RequisitePro, Rational Suite Enterprise, Rational Suite Team Unifying Platform, Rational Suite DevelopmentStudio, Rational Suite TestStudio, Rational Suite AnalystStudio, Rational Suite DevelopmentStudio RealTime
Robot Robot, Rational Suite Enterprise, Rational TestStudio
Rose Enterprise Rose Enterprise, Rational Suite Enterprise, Rational Suite DevelopmentStudio
Rose DataModeler Rose DataModeler, Rational Suite AnalystStudio
Rose Modeler Rose Modeler
Rose C++ Rose C++
Rose Professional J Rose Professional J
Rose VB Rose VB
Rose RealTime Rose RealTime
SoDA® SoDA for Word, Rational Suite Enterprise, Rational Suite Team Unifying Platform, Rational Suite DevelopmentStudio, Rational Suite TestStudio, Rational Suite AnalystStudio, Rational Suite DevelopmentStudio RealTime
Test RealTime Test RealTime
TestManager TestManager, Robot, Rational Suite Enterprise, Rational Suite Team Unifying Platform, Rational Suite DevelopmentStudio, Rational Suite TestStudio, Rational Suite AnalystStudio, Rational Suite DevelopmentStudio RealTime
RUP® Not applicable
XDE™ Not applicable

You may want to customize the license usage order in some cases. For example, you may want to have a product search for a specific suite key first. If you would like to change how your product uses point-product and suite licenses, see Changing suite license usage on your computer.


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