Built-in OpenLink Single-Tier (Lite) License

Data Access Drivers & Connectors
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Why?

Users have reported challenges in accessing and installing a separate license file, which have detracted from their initial focus: experiencing the unique prowess of OpenLink Single-Tier (Lite) drivers.

This new kind of courtesy and evaluation license offers more flexibility when evaluating OpenLink Single-Tier (Lite) products.

What?

The new built-in license has the following attributes for OpenLink Single-Tier (Lite) driver version 9.x and later:

  • number of concurrent ODBC/JDBC/OLE DB/.NET connections: 1
  • number of records fetched in SQL: 25
  • expires after #minutes: 10

The courtesy license for OpenLink Single-Tier (Lite) drivers has additional attributes:

  • functionality: unchanged, subject to the limits above

How?

This courtesy license kicks in when any of the following conditions are met:

  • license manager (oplmgr) is not running
  • license manager (oplmgr) is not responding
  • license file (*.lic) is not found
  • license file (*.lic) is for an older version of the product
  • license file (*.lic) is for another platform (operating system)
  • license file (*.lic) has expired

ODBC, JDBC, OLE DB, .NET client connections

When any connection request is received, a check is made for license expiration. After license expiration, an appropriate error message is passed to the client application to indicate the driver is out of licensed connections:

Number of licensed connections exceeded

Additionally, while running with this demo license, all SQL statements are limited to return a maximum of 25 rows.

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