Re: IBM will announce two new System i models, 515 and 525 on Apr. 10.

Basically the pitch was they *can't* enforce it and are relying on the licensing owner to enforce the licensing requirements. They didn't say that it was the "honor system" but that was about as good a description as I could give it. IBM has the right to audit your user entitlements as part of the licensing agreement so I suppose they could come in and determine just how your users are authenticating to the System i. But *would* they? I doubt it. You can either be honest about it or dishonest, I guess. Over time they may have better tools to monitor it. For now, it is up to the licensing entity to be straight with them.

I had seen this information back in February as well and the whole "counting users" issue hasn't changed since the original pitch.

Pete

albartell wrote:

It didn't make any difference whether the authenticating user was a System

i user profile or one of your own users in your own database. If there was
a process that involved uniquely identifying a user and passing a userid and
password, it was "authenticating" and was using a User Entitlement that
would have to be paid for.

No possible way they can enforce this. I am guessing they meant to say
something else.

Aaron Bartell