Is it possible to renew ORCAD license online?

Assuming you are in the US.  It's not available to renew online.   Tell them you need to renew.  You don't have a need for more.   Should be the end of it.

Bought an Allegro-L license for myself back in 2010 after an exhausting stream of jobs using tools forced upon me by engineers who wanted crossprobing and didn't care about anything else.   

IMHO, I want to find out about promotions to upgrade but I haven't experienced a campaign anything close to what I get from Alt*m.

After a few beers, you could convince me to talk about negotiations with MGC to renew P*DS.   Software that has no plans for real-time DRCs yet costs more.

There many annoying details in the way ORCAD is marketed, like charging for features which are free elsewhere, but the foot-in-the-door dealers is probably the worst.

I understand.    Curious which feature you consider should be free?

Free features are dangerous.   Is it free because it's crap and for all the effort that went into writing it, no one pays money for it?   Like design reuse or 3D for P*DS? 

For example Ultralibrarian. Same or often better models are available from SnapEDA or SamacSys, but Orcad keeps scaring Digikey's customers away to Mouser where same staff is free.

For example Ultralibrarian. Same or often better models are available from SnapEDA or SamacSys, but Orcad keeps scaring Digikey's customers away to Mouser where same staff is free.

Have not found a footprint on Digikey that wasn't free.  Its nice that Ultra supports 16.6 and HDL, which i need to talk to P*DS.  

The feature is called UltraBOM /Ultralibrarian. If you try to use it, it will allow you to put schematic symbols but when you start layout it turns out that to get footprints you have to pay. Amazingly Orcad support is not really familiar with this feature (probably because it is not very popular) and when 6 month ago I opened a ticket it took them about 3 days to figure out why my parts from Ultralibrarian have no footprints.

Ah.  I use CIP.   8 years ago, my only option was to buy a license for EDABuilder, which builds an Allegro and P*DS library in parallel.

If you are using 17.4 you can get most of this function from Place - Search Providers for free (not the CIP bit but UltraLibrarian). It uses Samacsys and UltraLibrarian and gives you symbol, footprint and 3d model. This is included by default.

Thanks a lot, I just tested it and this works exactly as in Altium!

However, the level of Orcad support is shocking. I had a ticket open for several days with escalation to a Ultralibrarian guru of intergalactic level and all they could find was that me Ultralibrarian license expired. Nobody ever mentioned this nice feature! I am still a little worried if this is linked to ultralibrarian license. I have two concerns, first, my Orcad license was just renewed, maybe they added an Easter egg with a renewed UL, second, maybe it will ask for license at some late layout stage.

Orcad turns out to be not as bad as it could seem ;)