Something else you may want to consider is restricting the amount of time
the users are allowed to have their terminal sitting there and doing
nothing.

We have a 100 user license, and typically the limit was reached very early
in the day.  The rest of the day was spent by many of us waiting to squeeze
in when someone logged off.  As a consequence, users were logging on as fast
as they could in the morning to get a slot on the hp, even if they had no
need to.

We were using MPEX to log off sessions whose idle time exceeded 2 hours.
Just recently, the grace time was reduced to 30 minutes and all of a sudden
we had plenty of slots available for everyone.  There were some complaints,
but our plans to upgrade the user license have been put on hold.  Now, when
someone needs to get onto the hp, there's a good chance that (s)he will
connect the first time; the users are happy (maybe happy is too strong a
term), which makes me, well, not happy but feeling better.

Cary Marshall
-----Original Message-----
From: Ed Milner [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
Sent: Friday, November 20, 1998 9:52 AM
To: [log in to unmask]
Subject: User Licenses question


As we are starting bump into our 20 user limit on the 927, our owners are
starting to ask what our options are to increase number of users.
Performance is not an issue.  Any comments?
Ed Milner