hi all,
while there are users still log-on to Baan, is stopping the ERP Licensing Service via Baan NT Manager harmful to the database or the Baan Application itself?
Thanks.

best regards,
Richard Citra.

From experience in Baan V, it is mostly ok, however, I have seen unpredictable surprizes...

dear Guru en@frrom,
what surprises? Please enlight.....

I've had that people in middle of running an application got something like "max number of users reached" or even connection with bshell lost. This most of the time doesn't happen, and I also do not hesitate to stop the server for a few moments when necessary, but I am always aware of possible conflicts/problems

do you mean that when someone is doing some process in Baan (i.e writing into the database) and we stop the ERP License Service then it could damage the table? What possible conflicts/problem do you have in mind (or perhaps you have encountered)?

The bshell checks for a license after every 3-5 sessions. So for example, if your running a session - and it calls a subsession 5 times, one of those times
the subsession will fail.

It will not corrupt your data, the transaction will be rolled back (assuming that the session is not customized and all of the commit's are in the right place), but your user will be angry =)

Dave