Re: license and user count

mws@appi.ci.in.ameritech.com (Mark Stannard) wrote: : :How do you count the number of users currently attached to informix versus :the number of licensed users you have available. i.e. How do you tell when :you have exhausted the number of user licenses available. Some people that I :have talked to think that it is the number of users attached, while others :think that it is the number of connnections/sqlexec processes. This is :for SE 7.x and Online 7.22. : :Thanks, : : :Mark Stannard :Ameritech This was discussed some time ago. Read you license agreement with Informix. If there is a clear definition you follow that. If there is not you can assume it's the number of actual users (people) using your database simultaneously. There have been posts here in c.d.i. saying that its the number of connections. If you do assume it's the number of users you should send a letter to the Informix office where you bought your databases explaining your assumption. With no responce you should be able to safely continue working on your own assumption. If they do respond you have to take it from there. For us to count the number of connections is kind of silly. We have several connections staying up all day that aren't used. They are just there in case that user need to use it (to use that program). To count these as users towards the license would make Informix prohibitively expensive. We and Informix would loose on such a deal. Nils.Myklebust@idg.no NM Data AS, P.O.Box 9090 Gronland, N-0133 Oslo, Norway My opinions are those of my company The Informix FAQ is at http://www.iiug.org