Licensing

HCL Launch provides a 60-day license-free evaluation period. To use all product features after the evaluation period, you must have a license.

Unless you provide the location of a license server when you install HCL Launch, a 60-day evaluation period begins when you install the product. During evaluation, you can use all product features. A message on the web-based UI displays the number of days that remain in the evaluation period.

After the evaluation period, you can access HCL Launch to view and edit items but you cannot run deployments. You need a license for the agents in which you want to run the deployments. You can apply for a license at any time.

Note:
  • Relays do not require any additional licenses.

HCL licensing system

HCLSoftware offers My HCLSoftware (MHS) as a software license manager. The MHS portal has utilities to acquire and return licenses for authorized and authorized zOS agents. It's licensing capabilities also provides us the two important information:
  • Maximum number of authorized licenses
  • Maximum number of authorized z/OS licenses

An organization identifies one of its resources as a License Manager (also called Tech or Portal Admin) who is familiar with the language of licenses. The license manager is responsible for following the instructions in the document to activate entitlement, create deployments, and download the software from the portal.

Note: To configure your license with HCL Licensing, see HCL Licensing documentation and Applying HCL licenses to agents.
Note:
  • FlexNet licensing system is deprecated and removed from 7.3.2.8 onwards. All our existing customers can continue to use FlexNet licensing until June 2025. You must migrate to the HCL Licensing for continuous license support.
  • You must upgrade to the latest versions of 7.3.2.x to use the HCL Licensing system.