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

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/