PM61118: LICENSE CODES WITH MULTIPLE MODULES BUT NO "CORE" OPTION ONLY LICENSE THE LOWEST-NUMBERED MODULE IN IBM SPSS STATISTICS

APAR status

• Closed as Vendor Solution.

Error description

• You are using IBM SPSS Statistics with a network (concurrent
  use) or site license, and have purchased varying numbers of
  users for
  Statistics Base and various modules.  You've created separate
  license code strings, bundling the extra modules together -- for
  example one license code string for Statistics Core/Base, and
  another with just module options "3" and "10" -- "3" being
  Advanced Statistics and "10" being Custom Tables.
  
  When you launch Statistics and run the syntax command "SHOW
  LICENSE" however, Custom Tables is not present, nor is it
  available in the menus.
  

Local fix

• When module licenses are bundled together in a license code
  string with no "0" feature code present, only the lowest feature
  code is recognized.  So a license that contains the "0" option
  will several other modules will license them all.  But the
  license code string in this example that contains just the "3"
  and "10" options will only license the "3" option -- "10" will
  not be picked up.
  
  The workaround is to be sure to either bundle all modules
  together with the Core option "0" -- which is only possible if
  you have the same number of users for each module as you do for
  Core -- or create one individual license code string for each
  module separately.
  
  This has been reported to IBM SPSS Statistics Development for
  remediation in a future release.
  

Problem summary

Problem conclusion

Temporary fix

Comments

• This issue was addressed by altering the procedures available
  when the user generates their authorization codes to begin with
  at the Licensing Key Center.  No code changes were made to IBM
  SPSS Statistics or the Sentinel License Manager, but users may
  now no longer generate autorization codes that combine
  individual modules if the Core license is not included.  This
  resolves the problem.
  

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Fix information

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