I have a customer running both UPS Worldship and the FedEx software using an
ODBC connection to D3/Linux 7.3.0. When they try to run both shipping
software packages at the same time, they get an error message referring to
user licenses. Of course nobody can give me the exact message. They have
plenty of D3 licenses available.

Is there a restriction to the number of ODBC connections? If so, can more
than one ODBC connection be opened at a time?

Thanks in advance.
Jeff


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Jeffrey Kaufman
Key Data Systems Group
www.keydata.us
1111 Grizzly Peak Blvd.
Berkeley, CA 94708

510-486-9015 office
510-486-9016 fax
559-432-3832 cell

Western Pacific Supply
www.westpacsupply.com
888-WestPac

AFAIK, there is no problem making multiple ODBC connections. Each one
consumes a user license same as a telnet session.

I have a suite of VB-based software for restaurants and typically in test
mode from a single development box, I have the server's app, the backoffice
app, a special control flags maintenance app and a mapmaker app that all
make ODBC connections to the same server using the same DSN at the same
time.

Do you have "nailed" ports? Could you be running out of "loose" ports?


Mark Brown


"Jeffrey Kaufman" <jkaufman (AT) keydata (DOT) us> wrote

Thanks Mark. I'll follow those leads.


"Mark Brown" <mbrown (AT) drexelmgt (DOT) com> wrote

Jeff -

Is it possible that the two products (UPS & FedEx) are using the same
computer for the out-going side of the connection, possibly with a separate
third-party component that only has a single license?

This might create the problem you describe, but the problem is with the
'other side' of the connection.

Just a thought (yes, sometimes I have them.)

BFaux