We are in the process of upgrading our from Powerbuilder 10.5 to Powerbuilder 12.5, and upgrading our virtual machines from Windows 2003 to Windows Server 2008.
We work in a virtual machine environment, connecting through Citrix -- multiple virtual developer desktops are set up, and we have one machine that serves as a formal "build" machine. The build machine uses Powergen to do a formal Powerbuilder build from within a controlled environment.
We have purchased one Powerbuilder 12.6 license per developer. But I can't figure out how to set up the licensing to let everyone work under the new platform. The other pieces seem to work fine (including version control licenses that use a license server and Powergen); not sure why Powerbuilder setup seems so complicated.
We have set up a served license model, per instructions. The server seems to serve up licenses fine, but they never seem to be released. It seems that one license is taken up for each developer, for each virtual machine. If there's no way to release it when you're done on a particular VM, we go through the licenses pretty quickly.
Under this scenario, even if a developer ONLY needs to connect into one VM for development, and needs to be able to do a formal build on a different non-developer machine, it seems that I'd have to purchase two licenses (when you multiply this by the # of developers involved, the cost adds up pretty quickly)? That can't be right, is it?
For our Source control licenses (which, I believe also use Sysam or something similar), it is also based on the # of developers. When a developer moves from one machine to another (closes the connection to source control), the license is "released", so that the same user can grab it from a different machine. We can set up the amount of time after which the license can be released. It's still based on a named user (registered in the server), and is not a floating point license; it just gives the developers some flexibility so that they can get their work done.
How can I set up Powerbuilder 12.6 and/or Sysam to be able to do something similar without having to buy one license per (developer, VM) combination?
Thanks in advance
Alok Mehta