Summary

Problem with Borrow early return when Hyphen is used in FEATURE name and borrow is initiated with lc_borrow

Question

Why is there a problem with Borrow early return when Hyphen is used in FEATURE name and borrow is initiated with lc_borrow?

Example License File:

SERVER this_host 00189b19ceb5

VENDOR MWALI

USE_SERVER

FEATURE AB-CD-EF MWALI 1.0 22-feb-2011 1 \

VENDOR_STRING="This is a Vendor String" ISSUED=20-Jan-2011 BORROW=336 SIGN="008A 0E80 \

A574 6A40 7D39 54F7 0F49 E200 8A88 54E6 F4FC C8AC C566 7C69 \

4274"

Answer

The Hyphen is not a supported character for Feature Name. In Programming and Reference Guide of FNP 11.X and 10.X, the valid Feature name must contain only letters, numbers and underscores.

Feature Name

feature is the name given to the feature by the software publisher. Feature names must contain only letters, numbers, and underscore characters. Letters in the feature name are case insensitive by default. If case sensitivity is desired, see LM_A_LICENSE_CASE_SENSITIVE in C/C++ Function Reference.

Additional Information

The hyphen is a character used by FlexNet Publisher internally as a delimiter for various purposes. It was determined many years ago that the use of hyphen in a feature name would cause severe problems with the products internal use of hyphen. Therefore, it was documented quite clearly that hyphen in feature name was not supported.