Licensing DataGate for IBM i 16.x and up

This article applies to DataGate for IBM 16.0 and higher

ASNA DataGate for IBM i 16.x introduced a license registration change. Starting with 16.x, the license now includes the IBM i partition number (LPAR). While there isn’t a direct way to see this value on your IBM i, there is an easy, indirect way. These steps are all read-only and don’t change anything on your IBM i.

First, from the IBM i command line:

CALL QCMD

Then, from the QCMD panel:

CALL QSYS/QLZARCAPI

Which shows this display:

Figure 1. Using IBM's qlzarcapi API

The Partition ID is in thePartition Info-> area, about four or five lines down (shown in Figure 1 above in the red box).

We’ll also need your IBM serial number. Get it with:

DSPSYSVAL QSRLNBR

and your IBM i model number. Get it with:

DSPSYSVAL QMODEL

Getting your license

Contact us and provide us with:

• Company name
• DataGate version number
• IBM i model number
• IBM i serial number
• IBM i partition number (the red box in the image below)
• User Count

and we’ll generate a license for you.

Applying the license

A apply the license with this command:

[Library]/register

where [library] is the name of your DataGate library.

That displays the screen below shown in Figure 2:

Figure 2. Applying a DataGate license on the IBM i

As an aside, notice the the red box above in the Registration Assistant panel shows the Partition ID.

A big thank you to Matt Marsh at The Walt Disney Company for bringing the QLZARCAPI API to our attention and a big thank you to Simon Hutchinson for writing about the API at his blog RPGPGM.com.