Activating D3

Activating D3 is the last step of the installation process. The product activation procedure is used to activate your system, to increase the number of licensed users on the system, and to use additional D3 features.

Procedure

Log on with user-ID dm and master dictionary entry dm.
```
Enter your user id: dm
master dictionary: dm

:_
```
As shown above, the colon (:) is a D3 prompt that indicates the user is at the Terminal Control Language (TCL) prompt.
At the D3 TCL prompt, enter:
```
activate
```
Enter <CTRL>x at any time to quit the activation screen.

The copyright information displays, followed by a copyright infringement warning and an agreement clause:
```
:
Do you agree with the above and accept the terms and conditions of the Rocket
Software License Agreement enclosed with your D3 distribution media.

[Yes/No/View/Print/Quit] ?
```

Carefully read the information displayed.

To view the entire end-user license agreement, enter view.
To print the entire end-user license agreement to the currently assigned system printer, enter print.
When satisfied with the agreement, enter yes to continue.

If this is a new installation, the system displays:

You do not currently have a System Identification # registered on this system.
One is provided to you when you purchase the D3 DBMS. If you have it you may
enter it now. If you do not have one or do not enter it now you will only be
activated for a TWO week period.

Enter System ID or press Q to quit

System ID #_

Enter the System ID Number provided by Rocket. This number is located on the colored sheet of paper in the D3 package.

The following message displays:

 Do one of the following:
- To perform a manual activation, press Enter.
- To perform an automatic activation, enter the email address registered for the
  specified system id:xxxxxxxx. Your computer must be connected to the internet
  to use this option.

Email Address:

Note: These instructions illustrate a manual activation.

The system displays a similar activation screen:

System Identification  12345678
Hardware ID            1234-abcd-5678-efgh-9012-ijkl-3456-mnop-01
Input activation code, or <CTRL>x to exit

Field	Description
System Identification	An 8 digit number, obtained from Rocket as part of purchasing our software.
Hardware ID	A 34 character alphanumeric string. It displays on the terminal when the activation program executes.

Make note of these numbers from the activation screen in the space below; Customer Service will ask for them when calling for the activation number.

System Identification __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __

Hardware ID __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __

Activation numbers are available 24 hours a day, seven days a week. To obtain an activation number, call Rocket Customer Service at (949)-585-9400 or go to the Rocket Web Site:

http://www.rocketsoftware.com/

Enter the activation codes provided by Rocket.

If the activation number is not accepted, this message displays:

Error: invalid set of numbers, please try again!

When the activation code is accepted, a similar screen displays:

Host system:    Unix
Processor type: 80X86 protected mode
Implementation: D3 LINUX
System ID:
System Options:
I/O Subsystem Support   Blocked IO         SVID termio


Features     Status      Features      Status
-------------------------------------------------------------------
OpenDB      Available

Pool Name          Max         Used        Users      Weeks   Expiration Date
                 Licenses     Licenses    Allowed
--------------  ----------   ---------     ---------   -----   ---------------
User                10            2          10         26     25 May 2013
Server              1             0          1          26     25 May 2013
Connections/IP      3             0          3          26     25 May 2013
Phantoms            12            1          12         26     25 May 2013

Verify that all appropriate features are available and that the number of licensed users agrees with the license that was purchased.
- If not, call Rocket Customer Service to verify the activation.
  Note: The activation process shown above must be completed once for each separate licensing pool you are activating. You are prompted to enter the next activation or to exit the process.
  - If there are more server pools to be activated, press any key to continue the activation and enter the next set of numbers to activate another server pool.
  - If all server pools have been activated, press <CTRL>x to quit.
- To verify the system's activations and its set of licensed pools, enter the maxusers and sysid commands.
The activation process is complete.