License requirements
Overview
- You are not required to install a license server on every computer that is using Rational Publishing Engine. Install the license server on one server and distribute license keys to the Rational Publishing Engine users.
- Rational Publishing Engine licenses are floating or user-based. Nodelocked licenses cannot be used.
- Temporary licenses are available for evaluation purposes, but cannot be used with permanent user-based or floating licenses.
License usage
- When one or more client applications is open on your computer, a license is consumed on your computer. The license is consumed the entire time the application is open.
- For the DOORS Publish menu (add-in mode), a license is NOT consumed when the Launcher user interface is opened.
- For Document Builder, a license is consumed when a user logs into the web user interface. A second license is consumed when a document generation is in progress. The second license is checked back in when the document generation is complete, and the first license is released when the user logs out.
- When a remote document generation is started from the Rational Publishing Engine add-in through the user interface or the command line, a license is consumed on the server. The license is checked out when the remote document generation begins. Then the license is checked in after the document generation is complete.
| Rational Publishing Engine feature | Open interface | Generate a document - Local | Generate document - Rational Publishing Engine Document Builder |
|---|---|---|---|
| Document Builder | 1 license as long as the UI is open | Not possible | 1 additional license |
| Launcher | 1 license as long as the UI is open | No additional license | 1 additional license |
| Document Studio | 1 license as long as the UI is open | No additional license | 1 additional license |
| DOORS Publish menu | 1 license as long as the UI is open | 1 license consumed | 1 additional license |
| DOORS menu option "File / Export / Document Generation" | No license consumed | No license consumed | Not possible |
Licenses are configured with a timeout setting of 60 minutes unless a document generation job is in progress. If the Launcher or Document Studio application is open and unused for 60 minutes without a document generation job in progress, the license is checked back in. The user is prompted to either attempt to check the license out again or to close Rational Publishing Engine.
Document generation from within IBM products
Rational Publishing Engine does not consume a license for document generation requests within IBM products that incorporate the Rational Reporting for Document Generation component. This applies to both sample and custom templates within these products.
For example, you can design a template in Rational Publishing Engine Document Studio, deploy the template to Rational DOORS® Next Generation, and then perform the document generation from Rational DOORS Next Generation without consuming a license.
Example
You have 10 floating keys. With a floating key, users can share licenses from a common pool. 5 users are report designers, who are assigned the task of authoring and creating document templates. 10 other users can generate documents from the templates that are provided to them by the report authors. These 15 users share 10 license keys.
