All Pro/ENGINEER licenses and options can be combined onto a single Config ID and assigned through this one entity to the desired license server. As other products become available such as Pro/INTRALINK and Pro/MECHANICA, these can be added to this single Config ID.

*See list of currently eligible products

Example of License Simplification

1. Increase our customers flexibility to manage PTC licenses
   • With the license configuration integrated into the installation process, customers can alter the assignment and configuration of functions without contacting the PTC License Management team.
2. Removes a majority of the licensing rules
   • Many of the licensing rules that generated numerous Config IDs have been eliminated. Licenses are simply assigned to a machine through a Config ID.
   • Timed and perpetual licenses can now be combined onto the same Config ID.
3. Stabilizes licensing Config ID numbers
   • With the elimination of the licensing requirements on Config IDs, each customer will have significantly fewer Config IDs to manage.

   • License changes will not force config id changes due to the old requirements.

4. Reduces the time associated with licensing PTC products.
   • Customers and PTC will no longer need to research and maintain the tight control on the multiple flavors of licenses based on how the products were originally purchased.

5. Reduce System Administration time for license changes
   • Common feature names reduce client updates because as licenses are moved between servers, the feature name and thus startup commands remain constant. The only potential change would be the client's server list, which is a relatively simple update.

6. Improves license tracking process
   • Reduces information surrounding PTC products

   • Expected 2/3 reduction in Config Ids

1. Moves the license configuration from licensing process to installation process.
   Specifically, each purchased item will be listed within the license file as a separate feature thus allowing the customer to group licenses during installation.
   
   
2. Assigns all products to a machine through a single Config ID. 
   Many of the traditional licensing restrictions that forced similar products to be defined on separate Config IDs have been removed. The Config ID becomes reduced to a mechanism to assigning products to a license server.
   
   
3. Uses common Feature Names in licenses.
   With each purchased item being uniquely defined in the license file, products will be defined with a consistent feature name. This format follows a more standard approach to using FLEXlm and allows floating options to be initiated with a base license during start-up.

IMPORTANT Please note this version of Pro/ENGINEER has been built with and requires using FLEXlm 7.2. The License Simplification changes utilize some new functionality in FLEXlm 7.2, which is now distributed by default on the Pro/ENGINEER CD.

• The Config ID is no longer part of the feature name. Instead, it is moved under the SN tag elsewhere in the feature line.
• A new classification of floating options/bundles, called Startup, has been created for all locked modules and extensions. This new feature classification can be identified by the keyword STARTUP in the Vendor String.

The following provides examples for a license-to-run and a floating bundle under the License Simplification process. New areas described above are shown in bold text:

INCREMENT PROE_FlexEng ptc_d 23.0 01-jan-0 0 \
1CCBD4992306440F61A0 VENDOR_STRING="VSVER=2.0 LO=(0, \
3, 6, 7, 10, 17, 19, 32, 34, 40, 45, 51, 52, 55, 62, \
63, 66, 69, 71, 73, 97, 106, 108, 115, 126, 127, \
128, 158)" HOSTID=PTC_HOSTID=00-CC-DD-33 SUPERSEDE \
vendor_info="VIVER=1.0 EXTERNAL_NAME=" ISSUER=PTC \
ISSUED=09-nov-2001 NOTICE=" PTC_CUSROMER, 000" \
SN=1234568

INCREMENT 10118 ptc_d 23.0 01-jan-0 1 \
AC2BD4A9DB54B88A6429 VENDOR_STRING="VSVER=2.0 STARTUP \
LO=()" SUPERSEDE ISSUER=PTC ISSUED=09-nov-2001 \
NOTICE="PTC_CUSROMER, 000"

INCREMENT PROBUNDLE_10118 ptc_d 23.0 01-jan-0 0 \
5C9B8499D4B428AA6E42 VENDOR_STRING="VSVER=2.0 \
LO=(32, 52, 63)" HOSTID=ANY SUPERSEDE ISSUER=PTC \
ISSUED=09-nov-2001 NOTICE=" PTC_CUSROMER, 000"

	=======================================
	License Information
	=======================================
	
	Config-ID: 1274228
	Product Version: 2001
	Product Build: 2001440
	License Name: PROE_FlexEng
	License Version: 23.0
	License Type: Commercial version, Node-Locked License
	Server Name: bimmer
	
	LM_LICENSE_FILE is defined: 7788@bimmer

If you select Modify next to either License Extensions or Floating Options, you will receive a dialog similar to the one below.

This dialog enables you to add or edit License Extensions or Floating Options.

Suggested techniques on the installation of Pro/ENGINEER using License Simplification can be found at:

Step-by-step Installation Procedure of Pro/ENGINEER using License Simplification on Windows

Step-by-step Installation Procedure of Pro/ENGINEER using License Simplification on UNIX

PROE_FEATURE_NAME before LS:
setenv PROE_FEATURE_NAME PROE_1274228

PROE_FEATURE_NAME after LS:
setenv PROE_FEATURE_NAME PROE_FlexEng (10118,32)

Note that in addition to checking out the license PROE_FlexEng, the bundle 10118 and the floating option 32 will also be checked out, if available. If some options are not available, a warning dialog will be produced stating that some features could not be obtained. This dialog will also enumerate the options/bundles that could not be obtained. Once the user acknowledges this dialog, they may begin working.

ptcstatus v

Displaying status for license file: 7788@static
Running Redundant Servers:
     static.ptc.com
     snow.ptc.com
     isabela.ptc.com
ptc_d FLEXlm version: 7.2

ptcstatus

Displaying status for license file: 7788@static
Running Redundant Servers:
     static.ptc.com
     snow.ptc.com
     isabela.ptc.com

Note that options or bundles that are type STARTUP, will be indicated with an asterisk (*).