Re: How Informix counts number of licensed users? HELP PLEASE!!!

fbouquet@cornut.fr (Frederic Bouquet) wrote: >Ivan Lyakhovenko,van@iis.nsk.su writes: >>I have Informix licensed for 5 concurrent users. But I can connect >>to OnLine as many users as I wish. I've tried at least 16(!!!) users at >>one time. It doesn't rejects me! >>The question is: how OnLine counts users? Does it counts connections, >>user sessions, userthreads, transactions or something else? In all cases >>it was more than 5 while I've made such experiments! >>I don't know what to do further - my application should not allow to >>connect more than 5 users at one time! > >This is well known problem (or bug) in version 4 and 5. But with Informix v7 >if you enter a serial number for 'x' users, the kernel will really prevent >you to connect more than 'x' users. > >Fred >------------------------------------------------------ >Frederic BOUQUET Client/Server & SQL RDBMS >email: fbouquet@cornut.fr http://www.cornut.fr/ For version 7.x the number of users is determined by the serial number that you enter during the install of the product. This is an excerpt of the file /$INFORMIXDIR/etc/install case $USERCODE in A) NUMUSER=1; SINGLUSR=true;; B) NUMUSER=8;; C) NUMUSER=16;; E) NUMUSER=32;; F) NUMUSER=64;; G) NUMUSER=128;; H) NUMUSER=256;; J) NUMUSER=unlimited; LIMIT=false;; V) NUMUSER=unlimited; LIMIT=false; EVAL=true;; the letter code refers to the alpha character following the # in the serial number. i.e AAB#A is a single user licence and AAB#J is an unlimited license (add as many users as you like).