SySAM-enabled products may specify license attributes in the VENDOR_STRING and ISSUER fields to identify certain properties of the license, such as product edition, type of license and any limitations imposed (such as maximum disk space or memory to be used).
For example:
INCREMENT ASE_EE SYBASE 2000.12310 permanent \ 1 HOSTID=0123ABCD \ VENDOR_STRING=PE=EE;LT=CP \ PLATFORMS="hp700_u hp64_u" \ ISSUER="CO=Sybase, Inc.;V=15.0;AS=S;MP=365;CP=2"\ ISSUED=31-dec-2000 BORROW=720 NOTICE="ACME Corp" \ SN=500500065-2021 TS_OK SIGN2="18E7 B0E8 EEBB \ E760 253C 0709 1287 F128 6871 4C28 0204 8F5D \ D6C9 7998 A2DF 1CA1 EDE6 D98C 526E D8D9 F64E \ A836 9781 AC6F F360 2FCE 03B9 3702 A626 BF95
The example above signifies that the license type is a per-CPU license (LT=CP), and that the product is Adaptive Server, with a product edition of Enterprise Edition (PE=EE), and license for standby use (AS=S). The license can be used to run a machine with a maximum of 2 CPUs (CP=2), and was purchased with a maintenance contract of one year (MP=365).
One significant difference between the ASE_EE license shown above and the prodeg license example in Unserved Licenses in the Sybase Software Asset Management (SySAM) 2 Users Guide is the value of the license version field. The prodeg license version matched the version of the product to be licensed. Both had a value of 2.0. The ASE_EE license version is actually a date value, 2000.12310, or December 31st, 2000. This is because the Adaptive Server product uses “date-based versioning” and requests licenses based on its build date rather than its version number. See Installing Product Updates, EBFs, and Support Renewal in the Sybase Software Asset Management (SySAM) 2 Users Guide.