R2015b: Multiple sessions

Is it possible to open multiple sessions / instances of R2015b? This was a very convenient capability in R2014b.

Answer 1

[Kent Conover]

A clean upgrade of the OS to "El Capitan" resolved the issue. Multiple instances are now provided. Perhaps the problem was caused by corruption of my Mavericks installation.

Answer 2

[Titus Edelhofer]

Hi Kent,

yes, that should still be possible. Has your license type changed? E.g. from an individual user license to a concurrent license? In this case you could run into problems starting multiple instances, since the concurrent license works differently (different users possible, but one instance per time).

Titus

[Kent Conover]

I am currently running R2015b under group license, so perhaps I am out of luck. Curiously, I also run R2014b under the same license and Matlab generously permits multiple instances. For instance, I am currently running both R2014b and R2015b. Might I make arrangements with the group license administrator to run multiple R2015b sessions? I would love to write code and run scripts at the same time.

[Titus Edelhofer]

I must admit I'm not expert on licenses, but I'm pretty sure it's a licensing question not a technical problem ... Talking to your group license administrator is probably your best bet.

Titus

[Walter Roberson]

If you just happen to be using OS-X see http://www.mathworks.com/matlabcentral/answers/93431-is-it-possible-to-start-multiple-matlab-sessions-on-a-mac-os-x-in-matlab-7-7-r2008b

For other operating systems, you might need to do something so that clicking on the icon does not just bring you back to the same session. I am not familiar enough with those operating systems to suggest the mechanism.

Answer 3

[Sriram Narayanan]

If you got it fixed, please post the resolution - for posterity.