An IQ server failed to check out an IQ_CORE license with an error below.
The IQ server's version was SAP IQ 16.0 SP11 and was running on a AIX LPAR system.
[Error message]
Licensing capacity set to PARTITION licensing. All IQ instances running on xxxxxxx (HOSTID=PARTITION-ID=800008ae74a00014) will share licenses. License quantities are based on 128 logical processor(s), 64 core(s) in 32 chip(s).
Failed to obtain license(s) for IQ_CORE feature from license file(s) or server(s).
Insufficient IQ_CORE CPU licenses. IQ requires 64 IQ_CORE ("DT") CPU licenses for use on this machine but only 8 could be obtained.
The license was generated correctly using the output of 'sysamcap PARTITION' command as below.
[ License ]
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INCREMENT IQ_EE SYBASE 9999.12310 permanent uncounted \
VENDOR_STRING=PE=EE;LT=DT;AP=IQ \
HOSTID=PARTITION-ID=800008AE74A00014 ISSUER="CO=Sybase, \
Inc.;V=15.0;AS=D;CP=8;MP=2916281;EGO=" ISSUED=02-jun-2016 \
The reason SYSAM keeps failing to check out the IQ_CORE license is that the partition was uncapped mode.
It is required that the same number of IQ_CORE license as the Maximum Capacity(64) should be checked out in uncapped mode.
*** output of lparstat -i
Type : Shared-SMT
Mode : Uncapped
Entitled Capacity : 2.00
Online Virtual CPUs : 16
Maximum Virtual CPUs : 64
Minimum Virtual CPUs : 1
Minimum Capacity : 0.10
Maximum Capacity : 64.00
In order to fix the problem, the partition was reconfigured CAPPED mode.of Shared-SMT.
Another way to fix it is to reconfigure the LPARs as Dedicated-SMT.
Dedicated-SMT and Shared-SMT/CAPPED LPARs should have a fixed number of processor cores that can be utilized by an IQ server.
