When you purchase licenses for Sybase Adaptive Server products, you are issued a Sybase Software Asset Management Certificate. The certificate has the following information for each product:
Order Number
Feature Name
Feature Count
Software Version
Authorization Code
Product Description
INCREMENT ASE_HA SYBASE 12.5 permanent 5A234B567C890\ OVERDRAFT=10000 ck=0 SN=30181-4
INCREMENT - indicates that the count of this license key will be added to the count of any other license keys for the same feature (all SYBASE license keys use INCREMENT).
ASE_HA - is the Feature Name entered.
SYBASE - identifies this license key as belonging to the SYBASE vendor daemon (case sensitive, must be uppercase).
12.5 - the Feature Version entered.
permanent - indicates this license has no expiration date (some license keys have a date instead.)
5 - is the Feature Count entered.
A234B567C890 - is the Authorization Code entered.
OVERDRAFT=10000 - indicates that you can check out more features than you are licensed for, but you will be warned that you have overused your license (case sensitive, must be uppercase)
ck=0 - the checksum (it is not used and is usually 0).
SN=30181-4 - the Order Number entered (case-sensitive, the SN part must be uppercase.)
Many of the fields in the license key are case sensitive; you must take care when editing a license key. The only time you should edit a license key is when the values have been entered incorrectly and the key is reported as invalid. Making any change to a license key that is valid makes the license key invalid.
