Enabling licenses

If you are installing the software for the first time or want to extend a license to continue using the product, you have options on how to enable licensing for your product.

Licenses for this product are enabled in two ways:

  • Importing a product activation kit
  • Enabling Rational® Common Licensing to obtain access to floating license keys

Activation kits

The Product Activation Kit CD contains the permanent license key for you product. You use IBM® Installation Manager to import the activation kit to your product.

To enable the PVU licensing capability, download the PVU activation kit from the Rational® Common Licensing server, unzip it, and use Installation Manager to import the activation kit.

Floating license enforcement

Optionally, you can obtain floating license keys, install IBM® Rational® License Server, and enable floating license enforcement for your product. Floating license enforcement provides these benefits:

  • License compliance enforcement throughout the organization
  • Fewer license purchases
  • License keys served for IBM® Rational® Team Unifying and Software Delivery Platform desktop products from the same license server
Note: Some 7.0 and later versions of Rational® products require an upgraded version of the Rational® License Server. See this support article for license upgrade information: http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg21250404

For more information about obtaining activation kits and floating licenses, see Purchasing licenses.