Entitlement Management Issues Resolved in 2023.07

The following issues were resolved for entitlement management in the 2023.07 release.

Import No Longer Fails When Activation ID Is Linked to Multiple Maintenance Line Items

The entitlement export template is used to export an entitlement or entitlements (on the List Entitlements By Order page). The template aggregates rows for a line item linked to multiple maintenance line items. Previously, reimporting the data using the template resulted in an error because the aggregated data was in the last row for a set of lines. The sequence of aggregation has now been changed to support an import process that relies on the data to be present in the first row.

Additional License Consolidation Criterion “Version Date”

In release 2023.02, license consolidation functionality was introduced for local license servers and embedded devices (see License Consolidation for Local License Server and Embedded Devices). When the configuration option Consolidate Licenses is selected, FlexNet Operations can consolidate the licenses that contain multiple line items for the same feature if certain entities are identical for all line items.

In 2023.07, the additional license consolidation criterion Version Date has been added. This means that line items are only consolidated if they share the same version date (in addition to the other license consolidation criteria introduced in 2023.02).