You can use the License Update utility to review your product licenses and, as needed, make the following changes:

  • Change the number of licensed users
  • Update the licenses that you obtained through either the product evaluation process or PSDN subscription renewal process
  • Update the expired OpenEdge licenses
  • Update the license keys for the right-to-run (R2R) bit products
    Note: The R2R bit products include:
    • OpenEdge Advanced Security (Progress OEAS)
    • OpenEdge CDC for Enterprise
    • OpenEdge CDC for Workgroup
    • OpenEdge Pro2 CDC Workgroup
    • OpenEdge Pro2 CDC Enterprise
    • OpenEdge Multi-Tenant Tables
    • OpenEdge TDE
    • OpenEdge Table Partitioning
    You need to restart the database services once you update the OpenEdge licenses.
Note: The License Update utility is sometimes also called the Product Update utility.

Contact your Progress sales representative for a new License Addendum if you need to use this utility.

Note: For information about installing OpenEdge components using the License Addendum file, refer to Select your OpenEdge installation choices for installing in Windows, and Select your installation choices for installing on Linux.

To use the License Update utility to update your license in Windows, complete the following steps:

  1. Use the Show Configuration utility (SHOWCFG) to display the product license information for each OpenEdge product currently installed on your system, as described in Display license information.
  2. Choose License Update from your OpenEdge group. The Welcome screen appears. Click Next.
  3. In the Serial & Control Numbers dialog box, enter the serial number and the new control numbers that Progress supplies when you upgrade your license. Click Accept.
  4. The Product(s) Updated dialog box displays the product(s) you want to update. When you are finished updating the products, click Done.

To update your license on Linux. complete the following steps:

  1. Use the SHOWCFG utility to display the product configuration information stored in the OpenEdge Release configuration file progress.cfg, as described in Display license information.
  2. Change your current working directory to the directory where you installed OpenEdge. 
    cd <OpenEdge-install-dir>
  3. At the system prompt, enter the proupdt command and press RETURN.
  4. When the Welcome dialog box appears, press RETURN. The Product Configuration Data dialog box appears:

  5. Enter the serial number, and the new control numbers Progress supplies when you upgrade your license.
  6. Press ENTER. The Modified Product Information dialog box appears:


  7. Press ENTER again to return to the Product Configuration Data dialog box.
  8. Press CTRL+E to finish.
    Note: You cannot press CTRL+E from the Serial Number field.