AcuServer is shipped with a product code and product key that defines the licensing capabilities specified in your purchase agreement. When you supply your key information during installation, the Activator creates a license file encoded with the maximum number of acuserve instances allowed for your site.
To confirm the number of instances supported on your server, log onto the server and enter:
acuserve -v
If you require support for additional acuserve instances, you can easily upgrade your license by contacting your local Acucorp representative or by calling Acucorp corporate headquarters at +1 858-689-4500 or (from within the U.S.) at 800-262-6585.
Note that if users of the ACUCOBOL-GT Web Plug-in will be accessing your data via AcuServer, special licensing considerations apply. Namely, unless your plug-in users have a local or network runtime license installed, you must have a multi-user ACUCOBOL-GT runtime license on the server that accommodates each concurrent plug-in user that you anticipate. (If you anticipate 100 concurrent users, you need a 100-user runtime license on the server in addition to the AcuServer license file.) AcuServer detects plug-in connections and checks out a standard runtime license for each connection if a local license is not found. When a plug-in user disconnects from AcuServer by exiting the COBOL program, the runtime license is released and made available to subsequent users. If the number of plug-in users exceeds the number of licenses available on the server at any given time, the COBOL program receives a file status code 9D,105 and the following message is output to AcuServer's error log.
You have exceeded the licensed number of clients for AcuServer. If you would like to add clients, please contact your customer service representative
Refer to the Programmer's Guide to the Internet for more information on using the ACUCOBOL-GT Web Plug-in with AcuServer.