( ESNUG 291 Item 11 ) ---------------------------------------------- [5/27/98]
Subject: ( ESNUG 288 #2 289 #7 290 #9) Yes, VCS *DOES* Wait For Licences !!
> I want to say that we have NOT removed this feature, and we haven't planned
> to remove it in the next releases either. It's one of those free features
> that VCS users have come to like. Another is the ability to free up a
> license by pressing CTRL-Z.
>
> Our plan is simple, add features/performance without charging for new
> upgrades and to take market share from other simulators. This has been a
> very successful strategy. Anything else simply doesn't make economic sense.
>
> If "Abe Lincoln" and "Neelix" still have trouble with this feature, please
> give us more details on ESNUG so we can help you.
>
> - [ VCS Technical Support ]
From: [ Neelix of the Voyager ]
Hi John,
The story goes something like this: We got VCS4.1.1 and installed it and
tested it against our short regression suite; it passed so everyone was told
that it was ok to use (it's also faster than 4.0). Some of us started to use
it, others were still using 4.0 It was at this time that we discovered
that the wait-for license feature was definitely not working with VCS 4.1.1.
It was repeatable. Unfortunately, I did not note which of the machines
were seeing this failure, i.e., which version of the two revs of Solaris
we were running. I also did not note which versions of the two revs of
gcc we were running. But we had a hard repeatable failure - I thought.
A few days later, the licensing was working. I don't know whether it was
rebooting machines, restarting FLEXlm, or standardizing on one version of
gcc. In any event, the wait-on-license feature is working now. It seems
that the OS, gcc, FLEXlm, and VCS interact in some complex way. So, if you
have a license problem, rebooting and restarting may fix it.
John, I still need to be anonymous.
- [ Neelix of the Voyager ]
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From: [ Abe Lincoln Wannabe ]
Woops! Unbelievably, we can't reproduce the problem now. I am beginning to
think it had something to do with the flexlm setup (which incidently had
some problems in the time period when we noticed the problem). Me thinks
I spoke too quickly and chopped down the cherry tree with my new axe.
Suspicions with the Synopsys merger (Is Synopsys becoming a Cadence?)
probably didn't help.
- [ Abe Lincoln Wannabe ]
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