>It's like trying to plug a hole in a dike with a pickle. >What's to stop someone from simply setting up one device to act as the >phantom user and then funneling all requests through that device ? There would be >no way to tell if one user had 10 sessions and was just "really busy" or if you >were creating 10 pseudo-phantoms. And it would consume just the one license.
When talking about a device serving multiple requests and only using one U2 process, that is a violation of the International Program License Agreement. The agreement states the following: "Program licenses for Programs used in conjunction with multiplexing products (except for intermittently connected devices such as bar code scanners), must equal Sessions or Devices, as applicable, and calculated at the multiplexing front-end." Our partners have similar wording in their contracts with us. When talking about MQ- that is what it is for essentially. A single message queue can serve multiple message. So one U2 MQ phantom can listen, process, and respond to those multiple messages. That's the purpose. The difference is that a user license is consumed now where it wasn't before. The reason? Because it is assumed that human beings are placing those messages into the message queue and perhaps waiting for a response or some action to occur at some point. Since the process can only wait for messages one queue at a time, it is assumed that if multiple message queues are used, multiple phantom processes may be required, thus consuming additional licenses. If we are talking about server sockets, pooling can be served by a single phantom, but is limited by system resources as to how many it can serve efficiently. Multiple may be required, thus additional licenses are consumed. Again, this is due to the assumption that a user is interactively working through the socket. Regards, LeRoy F. Dreyfuss Product Manager IBM UniVerse and UniData (U2) Extended Relational Databases IBM Information Management Software Tel: 303-672-1254 Fax: 303-294-4832 Mobile: 720-341-4317 Tie-line: 770-1254 External email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] WWW: http://www.ibm.com/software/data/u2 ------- u2-users mailing list [email protected] To unsubscribe please visit http://listserver.u2ug.org/
