Paul H. Christidis ([log in to unmask]) wrote:
: Can someone elaborate a little on how HP is licensing its MPE/iX operating
: system, especially how the SNA Link/iX and IMAGE/SQL relate to the number
: of concurrent users.  If, for example, I have an 100 user license and I
: have 50 users running an application that opens 2 IMAGE databases will the
: 51st user be refused?
 
: Are there situations that a user session/job/connection is counted more
: than once?
 
- Briefly...  an FOPEN to a terminal device is counted towards user licence.
  You can have one process FOPENING 100 terminals and that's it, your user
  licence is used up.  Without going into all details of it, the basic
  approach is to count FOPENs to 'real' terminal devices that can do terminal
  I/O.  'real' includes also 'real virtual' terminals (sounds great, ha?) -
  meaning virtual terminals that do terminal i/o, excludes null VT terminals
  that cannot do terminal i/o.
 
  It does not matter how many databases one opens if the user has only one
  terminal device file open - that's one user.
 
Hope this helps,
:-) Eero Laurila - CSY Networking lab, NS services.