Using license keys for home use or travel

Configuring licenses for disconnected use.

If your product uses floating keys, with disconnected mode you can use IBM® DevOps software at home for a three day period. You must activate for disconnected use within a three day period of acquiring a floating license key and disconnecting from the network at work. After you activate for disconnected use, you can use the software for three days from that day and time.

For example, you acquire a floating key for IBM DevOps Code ClearCase® at 4 p.m. on Friday and disconnect from the network and go home. Because you plan to work at home during the next week, you must activate for disconnected use within the three day period of acquiring the key and disconnecting from the network. If you start ClearCase by 3:30 p.m. on Monday, you can use ClearCase until 3:30 p.m. on Thursday. If you do not start ClearCase before 4 p.m. on Monday, you will lose disconnected use of ClearCase.

Disconnected use of floating licenses on a UNIX system license server is not supported.

There are two other options for home use or travel:

Depending on whether it is available for your product, you can use authorized user keys instead.
ClearCase provides snapshot views. Snapshot views of your work do not require network connectivity; therefore, a license key is not necessary.