Introduction › Using a Concurrent License › Select a License for the Current Session

Select a License for the Current Session

If you are using a concurrent license, when you close CA ERwin DM or disconnect from your network, your license is checked in to the License Server. When you launch CA ERwin DM again, select the license you want to use for that session.

Follow these steps:

1. Click Start, CA, ERwin, ERwin Data Modeler.

   The CA ERwin DM Licensing dialog appears.

2. Select one of the following options and click OK:

   Acquire concurrent Workgroup Edition license

   Connects to the License Server and acquires a concurrent license for the Workgroup Edition. Suppose the Workgroup Edition license is not available. If you have purchased the Standard Edition license, then select If unavailable, attempt to acquire a concurrent Standard Edition license. A concurrent Standard Edition license is checked out, if available.

   Acquire concurrent Standard Edition license

   Connects to the License Server and acquires a concurrent license for the Standard Edition.

   Acquire concurrent use SQL Azure license

   Connects to the License Server and acquires a concurrent use license for SQL Azure.

   Note: To use a concurrent license for SQL Azure, select one of the concurrent license options mentioned previously, and then select this option.

   CA ERwin DM opens.

   Note: If no license is available, CA ERwin DM Community Edition opens.

You have selected a concurrent license to use CA ERwin DM.