How do you license the CLI product for the Community Edition?

Philip Holland
Philip Holland Altair Community Member
edited March 2023 in Community Q&A

Product: WPS 4.4.6 GA

Platform: Windows 11

Licence: Community Edition

The documentation for WPS talks about the command line interface, and typing the following in Windows PowerShell gives the following responses:

> wps
WPS Command Line Interface Version 4.4.6.0.5780-GA-release
Copyright 2002-2023 World Programming, an Altair Company

Usage:
    wps [<program-file-name>] <options>
where:
    <options> can be a list of either:
        -<optionname> [<optionvalue>]
        -config <config-file-name>
        -set <env-var-name> <env-var-value>
Any system option can be specified as optionname.
For the list of available options, and their syntax
see the WPS Reference for Language Elements.

> wps imagefile.sas -log imagefile.log
The CLI product must be licensed in order to use the command line interface

Why does the default message suggest that the wps command is OK to use, but as soon as you add a program name it complains about licensing?

Is the Community Edition licence not enough, and how can I get the CLI product licensed?

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Answers

  • Nico Chart_21517
    Nico Chart_21517
    Altair Employee
    edited March 2023

    Hi Philip,

    Unfortunately you cannot use the wps command line in the Community Edition of WPS/SLC. You have to run from the Workbench user interface. Sorry if it is not entirely clear in our documentation.

    Best Regards,
    Nico

  • Philip Holland
    Philip Holland Altair Community Member
    edited March 2023

    Hi Nico,

    Please can I request an "easy to find" page in the Knowledge Base, or similar, that explains the available and unavailable features of the Community Edition? Maybe there is a similar page, but the site search doesn't appear to know about it.

    Thanks............Philip

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