License requirements

The licenses for IBM® Rational® Focal Point™ version 6.5 and later are managed through the Rational Common Licensing process. To use Rational Focal Point, install IBM Rational License Key Server and the Rational Focal Point licenses, and then configure the Rational Focal Point server to point to the license server.

Supported license servers

For information about Rational Common Licensing, see the Rational Support licensing page.

Table 1. Supported versions of the license server
Rational Focal Point release Supported license server
  • Earlier than version 6.5
  • IBM Telelogic License Server
  • 6.5
  • 6.5.0.1
  • 6.5.0.2
  • Rational License Key Server, version 8.1.1
  • 6.5.1 and later
  • Rational License Key Server, version 8.1.1
  • Rational License Key Server, version 8.1.2

Upgrading to the required version of Rational License server


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