Requesting permanent license keys from the Rational License Key Center

In IBM Rational License Key Center, you can order and return permanent authorized user, floating, and named-user floating license keys for Windows, Linux, and the UNIX system products.

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Remember: The Rational License Key Center does not support temporary license key transactions. Contact your sales representative for more information about license key transactions.

The Rational License Key Center offers a range of license key management transactions as shown in Table 1.

Table 1. License Key management transactions
Transaction	Description
Generate license keys	Request your permanent license key. To order a permanent key, you must have your Proof of Entitlement certificate, the host name and host ID, or Ethernet address of the license server or client. You can register: IBM Rational products on Windows or UNIX systems that will be served from a license server. Single, multiple, or redundant license servers on Windows or UNIX system operating systems. Remote Windows or UNIX systems computers. You do not have to sit at the computer you are requesting license keys for. To order permanent license keys for a redundant server environment, specify in the following order the host IDs for the redundant servers: Primary license server Secondary license server Tertiary or back up license server The clients communicate with the redundant servers in this order.
Receive permanent license keys	After you order your keys in the Rational License Key Center, an IBM Rational license file is generated. Click Download Keys to download the license file in Rational License Key Center. If you request a permanent license key by fax and you have specified an e-mail address in your contact information, you will receive a license key file by e-mail. You can copy the permanent license file from the e-mail enabled computer and install it on the computer that is not e-mail enabled. If you cannot provide an e-mail address, contact IBM Software Support for Rational products. After you receive the license key file: Import the floating or named-user floating license key file on the license server. For more information about importing a license key file on a license server, see IBM Documentation for Rational Common Licensing: https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/common-licensing/8.1.6. Import the User Authorized license key file on the client: Installing authorized user license keys using LKAD
Move your license keys	Return an existing license key to your account and then request a license key for a new client or server. This adjusts the count of registered products in your account and enables you to receive a license key for the new computer. To learn more about returning license keys, see Returning or moving license keys.
View your Sales Orders	The View order history page shows you all the Sales Orders that are associated with your account. You can click Sales Order Number to view details about the order. Clicking the License keys for this order hyperlink enables you to generate keys associated with your order.
View your installed keys	The View keys by host page displays a complete list of hosts that currently have installed keys that were generated from the specified account.
Add other members to your account	The Account members page shows a list of users who are members of your account along with each member's e-mail address, title, and privileges. The same user can be a member of multiple accounts with differing privileges across accounts.
Add yourself to other accounts	It is possible that your company has multiple Rational License Key Center accounts that you must access. You have two options to access the accounts: the account administrator of the account you want to access can add you as a member or you can add yourself to the new account.
Switch between accounts	If you are a member of multiple Rational License Key Center accounts, the Switch account link is displayed in the left menu.