I find the whole licencing issue a real pain.
Compare to sql server - express edition for free comes with 100 pooled connections as default - ok there is a max DB size I can then progress to a server licence - again any number of connection pools. Connection pools on unidata i get about 5 for the same kind of money From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of David Wolverton Sent: 01 February 2011 17:58 To: 'U2 Users List' Subject: Re: [U2] What do you do with CallHTTP? @George - you're probably right -- I found the doc on that link was dated Feb / Mar of 2010 -- that was well into Rocket-realm, but perhaps they just 'wrote up' the logic IBM used to make the change. And yes -- it appears the any 'socket' sets iPhantoms. The problem is that the logic does not address specifically the uses that could be 'abused' - but rather ALL uses. @Jeff / Symeon - That I can see, you don't 'consume' a 'purchased' seat running a phantom UNTIL you do a anything 'socket' - even if that Socket Use has the same use as a 'disk read'. As for use of cURL, WGet, etc - these are examples of the issue as I see it. Those are still an option to do exactly what we could do BEFORE this rule went into play, and we can still do those even now without a license 'ding'. To me, that's the core of this issue: the change didn't 'fix' anything except to create a barrier to adopting the Rocket-provided toolsets since CallHTTP can no longer work in a Phantom without 'expense' to the customer. I mean, they spent the time and money to develop CallHTTP, but now I can never use it again -- and sounds like a great number of people never used it or already 'jumped ship' as well. And are still doing EXACTLY what the change was designed to prevent! So what good was the 'effort' and 'hassle' for the change?? Did they really pick up additional revenue?? Or just make people find 'non-U2' solutions?? So - As I see it, there was a logic error in the decision made by IBM, continued by Rocket. I (probably crazily) hope that they will revisit the issue for CallHTTP. But from comments posted here, appears no one else is "impacted" by the Phantom license change. I am guessing people either just silently re-wrote their code to 'skip over' CallHTTP rather than complain, or had never adopted CallHTTP in the first place (used cURL/wGet before CallHTTP existed and never moved.) - So I will just work around it as everyone else did since it is not a 'group issue' worth pushing. Now, if they ever hamper the ability to run cURL/wGet, I guessing there will be the massive outcry that didn't happen over this issue! LOL! Have to get started -- Sadly, no one is going to pay me to fix this. And I write enough issues on my own without someone else creating issues for me! So... Goodbye CallHTTP -- Hellllo cURL! DW _______________________________________________ U2-Users mailing list [email protected] http://listserver.u2ug.org/mailman/listinfo/u2-users _______________________________________________ U2-Users mailing list [email protected] http://listserver.u2ug.org/mailman/listinfo/u2-users _____ No virus found in this message. Checked by AVG - www.avg.com Version: 10.0.1204 / Virus Database: 1435/3416 - Release Date: 02/01/11 _______________________________________________ U2-Users mailing list [email protected] http://listserver.u2ug.org/mailman/listinfo/u2-users
