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UDB Components for Rational Products and DB2 Express-C, licensing and limitations for Team products

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Question

What are the licensing limitations for the UDB Components for Rational Products and IBM DB2 Express-C versions 8.x and 9.x?

Cause

These databases are available for use with IBM Rational versions 7.x and 8.x team products as SQL Anywhere has been removed as a supported database.

When shipped with previous version of IBM Rational products SQL Anywhere was fully licensed and could be used without any limitation. SQL Anywhere has been replaced with UDB Components for Rational Products in versions 7.x. and 8.x

Answer

IBM Rational Products introduced support for DB2 9.1 in version 7.0.1, and DB2 9.5 in 7.1. The DB2 Restricted Enterprise Edition is provided as the bundled database offering for these Rational versions.

These are the full Enterprise versions of DB2, and are restricted to usage only by Rational products.

Refer to Technote 1216800 for additional license information.

  • Restricted to exclusive use by IBM rational products.
  • No database customization or extensions are allowed
  • No User limitation
  • No CPU limitation
  • Up to 4 GB of memory
  • Any storage system setup
  • No restrictions on database size or any other artificial restrictions
  • Formal IBM DB2 support available for issues


IBM Rational Products in version 7.0 can make use of either one of the following versions of DB2 with these noted license restrictions. This information does not affect users of an IBM DB2 installation.

Licensing and limitations for the v8.x UDB Components for Rational Products (Shipped with Rational Products v7)
  • Concurrent Users, 25 node locked and 10 floating users
  • 2 dual-core CPU servers
  • Up to 4 GB of memory
  • Any storage system setup
  • No restrictions on database size or any other artificial restrictions
  • Formal IBM DB2® support available for issues


Licensing and limitations for the IBM DB2 Express-C (Available for free on the Web)
  • 2 dual-core CPU servers
  • Up to 4 GB of memory
  • Any storage system setup
  • No restrictions on database size or any other artificial restrictions
  • No Formal IBM DB2 support available for issues

Note: IBM DB2 Express-C version 8.x, is a supported database vendor and can be used in conjunction with IBM Rational version 7.0 with one restriction: IBM DB2 Express-C version 9.1, is a supported database vendor with IBM Rational version 7.0.1.x, and 9.5 with Rational version 7.1.x and above.

IBM DB2 will not officially support IBM Rational clients who are using DB2 Express-C, as it is a Community version. IBM Rational clients who report issues, limitations or defects with IBM DB2 Express-C will not be able to obtain IBM DB2 customer support. IBM Rational customers who are experiencing issues with IBM DB2 Express-C can submit and research issues through a monitored forum available at IBM DB2 Express-C Forum.

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Modified date:
29 September 2018

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