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Re: Upgrading to mult-user without re-installing

Posted in 2006

Topics: Installation, Setup & Upgrades, Licensing & Editions, Versions, Editions & End-of-Life

Neil Truby — — source: Usenet: comp.databases.informix

<kirk.davis@gmail.com> wrote in message news:1154331555.901009.259280@75g2000cwc.googlegroups.com... > Hi All, We have a single user version of IDS 9.21 currently installed > on our box; we have now purchased a ten user license. > > Is it possible to re-licence the above without re-installing form > scratch, and if so, how? > > Thanks in Advace, Kirk Not sure what a "single-user version" is. 9.21 is sufficiently old, is it not, that licensing was done entirely on an honour basis. Therefore I doubt if you need do anything at all.

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kirk.davis — — source: Usenet: comp.databases.informix

Neil Truby wrote: > <kirk.davis@gmail.com> wrote in message > news:1154331555.901009.259280@75g2000cwc.googlegroups.com... > > Hi All, We have a single user version of IDS 9.21 currently installed > > on our box; we have now purchased a ten user license. > > > > Is it possible to re-licence the above without re-installing form > > scratch, and if so, how? > > > > Thanks in Advace, Kirk > > Not sure what a "single-user version" is. 9.21 is sufficiently old, is it > not, that licensing was done entirely on an honour basis. Therefore I doubt > if you need do anything at all. Hmm, you could be right; the customer has just advised that he can only access as a single user. I am at site tomorrow so I'll check that out and let you know! Thanks all anyway!

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Art S. Kagel — — source: Usenet: comp.databases.informix

kirk.davis wrote: > Neil Truby wrote: > >><kirk.davis@gmail.com> wrote in message >>news:1154331555.901009.259280@75g2000cwc.googlegroups.com... >> >>>Hi All, We have a single user version of IDS 9.21 currently installed >>>on our box; we have now purchased a ten user license. >>> >>>Is it possible to re-licence the above without re-installing form >>>scratch, and if so, how? >>> >>>Thanks in Advace, Kirk >> >>Not sure what a "single-user version" is. 9.21 is sufficiently old, is it >>not, that licensing was done entirely on an honour basis. Therefore I doubt >>if you need do anything at all. > > > Hmm, you could be right; the customer has just advised that he can only > access as a single user. I am at site tomorrow so I'll check that out > and let you know! Might be a config problem. The NETTYPE parameter for shared memory connections defines the maximum number of connections permitted of that type (for other connection types like ontcp this is an initial value, but for onshm it is a limit). Look at that. Art S. Kagel

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