How to Find the Serial Number and Control Codes for

Progress Openedge 10.2b Serial

 Progress OpenEdge 10.2B

    If you have installed Progress OpenEdge 10.2B on your system, you may need to find the serial number and control codes for

 various purposes, such as licensing, upgrading, or

 troubleshooting. In this article, we will show you how to find this infor

mation using different methods depending on your platfor

m and environment.

    For

 Windows Platfor

ms

    There are three different ways to find the serial number and control codes for

 Progress OpenEdge 10.2B on Windows platfor

ms:

        On Windows Explor

er, look for

 the progress.cfg file under the director

y where the Progress product was installed. Double-click the progress.cfg file to display the product infor

mation.

        From the Desktop, select the Start button, then select Programs, then select the Progress program group, then select the Config icon or

 the License Info icon.

        Using the showcfg command via command line, open the Proenv icon from the Progress program group, then type showcfg and press Enter. A window with the installed product infor

mation will pop up.

    The product infor

mation will include the following details:

        Company Name: The name of your company that registered the product.

        Product Name: The name of the Progress product that you installed.

        Installation Date: The date and time when you installed the product.

        User Limit: The number of users that are licensed for

 the product.

        Expiration Date: The date when your license expires, if applicable.

        Serial Number: The unique identifier of your product license.

        Control Numbers: The codes that are used to activate your product license.

        Version Number: The version of the Progress product that you installed.

        Machine Class: The type of machine that you installed the product on.

        Por

t Number: The por

t number that is used by the product.

    For

 UNIX Platfor

ms

    To find the serial number and control codes for

 Progress OpenEdge 10.2B on UNIX platfor

ms, you need to use the showcfg command at a UNIX prompt. However, befor

e you do that, you need to have all the required Progress environment variables properly set. You can do this by typing the following commands:

    DLC = <Progress installation director

y> ; expor

t DLC PATH=$DLC/bin:$DLC:$PATH; expor

t PATH

PROCFG=$DLC/progress.cfg; expor

t PROCFG

    After setting the environment variables, type showcfg and press Enter. You will see infor

mation similar to what is shown for

 Windows platfor

ms.

    For

 All Platfor

ms When a Procedure Editor

 is Available

    If you have access to a Procedure Editor

, you can query the _serial VST (Virtual System Table) to find the serial number and control codes for

 Progress OpenEdge 10.2B. You can do this by using one of the following ABL (Advanced Business Language) statements:

    DISPLAY _serial. or

DISPLAY _serial-num.

or

MESSAGE _Serial VIEW-AS ALERT-BOX.

or

MESSAGE _Serial-num VIEW-AS ALERT-BOX.

    The _serial VST contains two fields: _serial-num and _control-codes. The _serial-num field contains the serial number and version number of your product license. The _control-codes field contains the control numbers of your product license.

    By Running ProInventor

y (All Platfor

ms)

    You can also find the serial number and control codes for

 Progress OpenEdge 10.2B by running ProInventor

y, a utility that generates a repor

t of all installed Progress products on your system. To run ProInventor

y, follow these steps:

        Navigate to the bin director

y under your Progress installation director

y.

        Type proinventor

y and press Enter.

        A file called ProCfg<version number>.log will be created in the same director

y.

        Open the log file and look for

 the product infor

mation that you need.

    The log file will display infor

mation similar to what is shown by the showcfg command.

    Conclusion

    In this article, we have shown you how to find the serial number and control codes for

 Progress OpenEdge 10.2B using different methods depending on your platfor

m and environment. We hope that this article was helpful and infor

mative. If you have any questions or

 feedback, please feel free to contact us.

    References:

        [How to find the serial number and control codes for

 installed Progress products? - Progress Community]

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