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  • 1.  Misleading License document for Developer Edition

    Posted Thu October 10, 2019 04:53 AM
    Hi

    sorry, me again. I have been analyzing the license documents for 14.10 FC2 and noticed a big discrepancies between what the product does and the document

    The document in question is the following http://www-03.ibm.com/software/sla/sladb.nsf/lilookup/0F4D5A657DDAB16D85258472005339CE?OpenDocument

    If you read well, the only restriction you find is "If the Program is designated as "Non-Production", the Program can only be deployed as part of the Licensee's internal development and test environment for internal non-production activities, including but not limited to testing, performance tuning, fault diagnosis, internal benchmarking, staging, quality assurance activity and/or developing internally used additions or extensions to the Program using published application programming interfaces"

    After this, no more limitations at all, so I understand from this "All ressources allowed, just do not use in production".

    Unfortunately, when I want to create a dbspace of say =~ 10 Gb
    [root@dell ids14.10FC2_DE]# onspaces -c -d mydbs -p /opt/informix/engines/ids14.10FC2_DE/storage/mydbs -o 0 -s 10000000
    Verifying physical disk space, please wait ...
    Cannot add a new chunk to the DBspace.
    The limits of the IBM Informix Demo Version have been exceeded.
    So yes, there is a limitation on storage, that seems to be set at 8Gb max.

    On the other hand, if I look at the Innovator C document, http://www-03.ibm.com/software/sla/sladb.nsf/lilookup/9C8443E1CC898A858525847200532D6A?OpenDocument
    the limitations are clearly written. ( CPU VP #, SHMEM, Storage. )

    It really makes sense to give Developer Edition higher storage limits because in many cases it is just not easy to develop with a very reduced data set:
    - too small data set does not reveal eventual performance issues
    - too small data set often leads to unapropriate unit testing: using production data is the way to go r, and again, 8gb is often very small and obliges to additional complex tasks of selecting data subsets
    - and I bet many other reasons

    If we consider that the license document is the document that rules, those physical limitations for DE should should be withdrawn, or is this an error in the legal document ?

    Eric





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  • 2.  RE: Misleading License document for Developer Edition

    Posted Thu October 10, 2019 03:54 PM

    Eric:

    I too have run into the same issue.  We had been told that IBM was removing the restrictions for the Developer Edition but upon installing the newest build we found that the IDS storage capacity was still limited as it had been previously to 8 GB.  As we are an ISV also and limiting the DB storage makes it difficult to develop our enterprise software by only allowing us to work "with a very reduced data set".

    Let me know if you get any updates on this issue.



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  • 3.  RE: Misleading License document for Developer Edition

    Posted Mon October 14, 2019 08:12 AM
    Hi Eric (Club-Member),

    Carlton has changed the comparison table (..thanks a lot!), but the lic-document is still the same. 

    If this document ist not valid, its really confusing. I have a further example with the WE. According to the license document partitioning is no longer restricted.  http://www-03.ibm.com/software/sla/sladb.nsf/lilookup/1D3F513C3D53DEAD8525847200533DF0?OpenDocument

    Is there a reference to further documents I have not seen yet?

    Back to the Developer Edition: the enhancements of the hardware limits are helpful, but the most significant restriction of using this edition is the limit in storage (8 GB) and 20 connections. This must change! Please refer to the Community Edition of DB2

    Erik


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  • 4.  RE: Misleading License document for Developer Edition

    Posted Mon October 14, 2019 09:44 AM
    Hi Erik (Club member),

    the general trend is that a significant number of limitations have been changed  to 'better': this is valid for Innovator-C, Express and Workgroup.

    Now about the license document (which in theory is the document that rules at the very end), it speaks well about Developer Edition 14.10 xc2  and not about an older version...


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  • 5.  RE: Misleading License document for Developer Edition

    Posted Wed October 16, 2019 09:15 AM
    Hi all, thanks for the pointers. We reviewed the license for Developer going way back to 12.10xc4 and it appears to not specify the hardware limits explicitly. Possibly because it is a non-production free software. So this is not new for xc2 license. 

    The Developer & Innovator-C limits were increased in xc2 and are posted in compare editions document authored by Carlton.

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