Installing AS Licenses

Chapter 1: What is Application Server Licensing?

This chapter describes Application Server licensing.

1.1 Introduction

You need a license to run an application developed using Micro Focus COBOL. The license is called the Application Server (AS) license. When you obtain Application Server, you receive a License Key Card. This card is your paper copy of an AS license. It identifies the number of licensed users, the product name (Application Server for UNIX) and the version and it has printed on it a license key, which enables you to install the license onto your system. Unless the license is installed, the system is unaware of the license, and you will not be able to run the applications for which you have obtained the license. If you require additional Application Server licenses, contact your Micro Focus account representative or your Micro Focus licensed supplier for details on purchasing them.

You must not install the same AS license on more than one system at a time; to do so would break the terms of the license agreement. If you want to move an AS license from one system to another, you must uninstall it from the current system first.

If you create an application that uses Application Server, refer to the licensing agreement that accompanies your Micro Focus Development system.

64-bit Application Server:
If you install a 64-bit version of Application Server, you are issued with licenses for the 64-bit version. Any licenses associated with a 32-bit version of Application Server are disabled; you are warned of this when you install the 64-bit version. This only occurs if you install Application Server in the same directory as a previous version of Application Server.

The 64-bit licenses enable you to use Application Server with applications developed in both 64-bit and 32-bit modes.

If for any reason you have been issued with fewer 64-bit licenses than you originally had with your 32-bit version of Application Server, you should contact your Sales Representative to purchase the required number of licenses.

1.2 Types of License

There are three types of license for Application Server:

Standard license. This is the name for the normal Application Server licenses required to run your application. A standard license has a life span of 30 seconds and will not be released for re-use if it has been used for less than 30 seconds. Once the application using this license has terminated and at least 30 seconds have elapsed since the license was acquired, it is made available for re-use. If you are a developer, and are running your applications to test them using the development system, then you have use of five standard Application Server licenses for each development system license, exclusively for testing.
Transaction license. This is the name for Application Server licenses that are suitable for high throughput applications, that is, applications that exist only for a short time, but are run frequently. Once an application using a transaction license terminates, the license is immediately available for re-use
Server license. This is a transaction license for an unlimited number of users.

Standard and transaction licenses support a specific number of concurrent users at a time, whereas a server license supports an umlimited number of users on a single server.

You cannot mix standard and transaction licenses as the application would then run in an inconsistent way. If the development system has already installed standard licenses, you should either install Application Server and its transaction licenses in a separate location, or install addtional standard licenses in the same location and set the ASLMFRETRY environment variable to overcome the built-in time delay of the standard licenses.

1.3 Administering Licenses

You monitor the number of users running an application, and install and administer licenses, using the AppTrack utility. Subsequent chapters show you how to install and administer licenses using AppTrack.

To ensure that license details are displayed correctly, you should ensure that you use the version of AppTrack supplied with your latest version of Application Server.

Warning: To use AppTrack on your system, UNIX must support shared memory allocation and use.

Installing AS Licenses