Licensing IDL on PPPL PC's

Installing and Licensing IDL on PPPL PC's

To set up an IDL license on a Windows system with its own local copy of IDL, perform the steps below. Note that this will not work from offsite without firewall authentication. (This has been tested under Windows 2000 and Windows XP with IDL 6.0.)

The user can see if the desired version is on our FTP site , or download it from Exelis.

NOTE: The licensing for IDL 8.3 and above needs to be on a Red Hat 6 system so set your environmental variable LM_LICENSE_FILE on your PC or Mac to "1700@cirrus.pppl.gov" if "1700@flexlmsrv.pppl.gov" does not work. If you want to run IDL 8.3 on a Linux system, it has to be at least Red Hat 6, as well (e.g., as of May, 2014, you would need to login to portalr6). Older versions of IDL can run on Red Hat 5 or higher.

On your PC:

Right click on My Computer and select Properties
From the System Properties windows, select the Advanced tab
Click on Environment Variables
From the Environment Variables window, click on New (under System variables)

for the variable name, enter:

   LM_LICENSE_FILE

for the new variable value, enter:

   1700@flexlmsrv2.pppl.gov;1700@flexlmsrv.pppl.gov

Click OK, then OK again to exit all windows.
As always with IDL, make sure your IDL_PATH variable looks in the directories you have placed any personal code. If you will be accessing MDSplus data with IDL, add C:\Program Files\MDSplus\IDL to your IDL_PATH variable (In IDL, go to Preferences...Path). You may with to bring down all the PPPL-written IDL programs via the g-zipped tar file (email idladmin for location), and store them in, say C:\PPPL_idl, and add this to your path.

If you have additional questions, please send email to idladmin

Installing and Licensing IDL on PPPL PC's

updated: 12-May-2014 by: Bill Davis

updated: 12-May-2014
by: Bill Davis