World Maximum user block

MackWorld

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Has anyone figured out a way to prevent additional users from signing on to World. If I have a 20 user license and the 21st user attempts to signon, they are allowed to. We would like to block anyone from getting on the system after our 20 licenses are used. Thanks in advance for any help.
 
This is a rough idea. Instead of setting each user's intial program to J98INIT, write a front end program that writes an interactive job's stats to a file before calling J98INIT. When each new user tries to use JDE, check the jobs that are in the file. Only let the user call J98INIT if the active jobs are within your limits.

You could train your users to call for instructions when the warning message appears. Tell them that are responsible for the penalty that Oracle imposes for exceeding the licensed user count.

You could assign somebody the responsiblity of deciding which user's needs are most and least pressing. When users call after seeing the warning message, that person would have the authority to determine who gets off & who can get on.
 
We've had to deal with this on many occasion (even now) and wish JDE did this out of the shoot for us. If there is a solution (easy) I'll be watching the thread.

In the meantime, you might want to make sure your system is using the "inactivity timer" so that it logs users off after a period of inactivity. (be sure to use *ENDJOB, not *DSCJOB becuase it doesn't log them off with the second choice) We have ours set to about 90 minutes because we were finding users were logging in "for the day" and not really using the system, hence using up a license. Once we invoked this procedure and let the users know it would be happening, it seems the user count went down a bit and users only get on as needed.
 
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