license manager hangups

I've only been reading this newsgroup for a week and I may have missed this problem if it was posted before, so please excuse me. I also searched the FAQ. With Star/Inet we installed and answered the question about TCP connections with a yes. This apparently causes it to use the flexlm license manager for network connections. This is all with Sun Clients and Server. The problem is that if a network client *quits*, then no other network clients can connect (they just hang waiting on a database open) until *all* other network clients quit. This problem is completely reproducable with our vendor supplied software and with dbaccess. I may not have all the terminology right (we are only using Informix with a vendor package and I haven't studied it extensively). We have been told that we need to reinstall Informix Online, star and net, and that we should answer the question "Does your host support TCP ?" with a no. Apparently, this will cause the network software to not use the license manager with which Informix allegedly has a bug. I'm sorry, but I don't have version numbers handy; however it is a recent installation (November 1994). Has anyone else experienced this problem? Is it true that we don't have to use the license manager? This seems awfully *uhm* strange?/unprofessional?/ugly?/ridiculous? that it can even run without the license manager. Why do they tell you to use it in the first place? Any help out there? -- ///// Lee Lindley Information Technology MTS / //// AT&T Microelectronics, PWB Headquarters, Richmond, VA // /// rgltl@attme.cnet.att.com | (Opinions my own - not responsible /// // 804-226-5849 | for company policy) //// / "Yor driftin son, yor driftin." -- Southern Cop to sleepy driver /////