Re: User limit on i525 EXpress: consequences?

Jim Sneddon wrote:
On Jan 8, 4:36 am, "Paul D B" <poll...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Paul D B wrote:
Hi all,
We've bought a new i525 Express with a 40 user license (30base+ 10
additional).
I had understood from our IBM Partner that this meant concurrent
users. Since we have only 35 interactive employees, 40 seemed enough.
Now I have this machine running for a few weeks here in parallel with
the old one but before I bring it into production I want some
reassurance about this usage limit. Because it now appears that OS400
simply counts the number of userprofiles (except the Q*) on the system
and there are more than 40, of course. They will never run
concurrently but I guess everyone will have a bunch of userprofiles
that run batch jobs etc...
A couple of questions:
- what happens if the limit is exceeded? Will those jobs run or not?
Will the machine be limited (in time, in power etc)?
- is there a way to switch to "concurrent" users instead of
"registered" users. I don't agree with "registered users"... IMO
that's bull***.
Thanks in advance
OK have already found out HOW the users are counted
seehttp://www.common.be/pdffiles/25042007Fabian.pdf
page 97 and further

Didn't find any indication that the system would be capped if the user
count is exceeded

--
Paul

ummmm.....

you will receive a count exceeded message in QSYSOPR....

and strangely enough more users will be able to sign on so you can
breathe a sigh of relief.....

and of course then you WILL call IBM and rework your licensing with
them.... RIGHT????

and of course you would _never_ GO LICPGM and make any changes to the
user threshold....

As a BP I have worked with this several times. IBM Licensing is by concurrent user and a user is a Physical Person. I have a group of clients where several users have a profile for Production, one for training and one for what they call validation. This is '3' profiles, but still '1' physical person. That physical person can sign on to as many times and use has many profiles as they like and that is '1' license.

No 1 person can not sign on 10 times and 10 physical people use it as 1 license, you would need 10 licenses then.

IBM has no real way to track this type of licensing today. Your Licensing Agreement I believe, gives IBM to audit your system at anytime.

I sounds like you purchased teh number of users you need today and should be fine. This will at worst case nag you when you add another profile.

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