Understanding license usage order

Description of the order in which licenses are requested.
An IBM® Rational® product that uses IBM Rational Common Licensing (powered by FLEXlm software) requests licenses in this order, by default:
  1. Authorized user before a floating license. An IBM Rational product requests a authorized user license before a floating license regardless of whether it is a Rational Lifecycle Package or point-product license.
  2. Point-product license before a Rational Lifecycle Package license. For example, IBM Rational Purify is sold as part of a IBM Rational Lifecycle Package and as a stand-alone product. Among a group of authorized user and floating licenses, Purify will first request a Purify license, and then request various Rational Lifecycle Package licenses in a specific order.
  3. License of the last Rational Lifecycle Package installed.

You can use the License Usage Mapper in LKAD to change the license usage order or have the application not search for any or all Rational Lifecycle Package keys.

Table 1 describes the default license usage order for each Rational product that uses Rational Common Licensing (powered by FLEXlm software).

Table 1. Default license usage order
IBM Rational product Default search order (from first to last)
ClearCase® ClearCase
ClearQuest® ClearQuest
Parent topic: Using License Key Administrator