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The CEAC has reviewed this requirement and recommends that IBM view this as a HIGH priority requirement that is important to address.
Background: The COMMON Europe Advisory Council (CEAC) members have a broad range of experience in working with small and medium-sized IBM i customers. CEAC has a crucial role in working with IBM i development to help assess the value and impact of individual RFEs on the broader IBM i community and has therefore reviewed your RFE.
To find out how CEAC help to shape the future of IBM i, see CEAC @ ibm.biz/BdYSYj and the article "The Five Hottest IBM i RFEs Of The Quarter" at ibm.biz/BdYSZT
Sabine Jordan + Sara Andres – CEAC Program Manager, IBM
In case TS015843903 I have documented that persistent accesses to the ~/.iSeriesAccess/cwb_userprefs.ini file causes very long login times (up to 20 seconds), and the accesses its equivalent of a registry key over 200 times per login:
1815949 openat(AT_FDCWD, "/home/<Myhomedir>/.iSeriesAccess/cwb_userprefs.ini", O_RDWR|O_CREAT|O_APPEND, 0666) = 4
1815949 flock(4, LOCK_EX) = 0
1815949 fstat(4, {st_mode=S_IFREG|0664, st_size=1120, ...}) = 0
1815949 lseek(4, 0, SEEK_SET) = 0
1815949 read(4, "[CWB_CURRUSER\\Software\\IBM\\Clien"..., 4096) = 1120
1815949 read(4, "", 4096) = 0
1815949 flock(4, LOCK_UN) = 0
1815949 close(4) = 0
The majority of this accesses appear to be identical so it doesn't seem to useful and looks like an algorithmic issue from my perspective.
If the home directory is not local (as in my scenario) this causes very, very long login times and affects the operational stability of our application or QA testing. Requiring our customers to change their configuration is not a vaild solution either, should they have the same scenario (a mounted home directory).
IBM Power Systems Development
The CAAC has reviewed this IBM Idea and recommends that IBM view this as a high priority Idea that is important to be addressed.
Need to make ODBC as easy to use as possible. This includes reusing existing connections.
Background: The COMMON Americas Advisory Council (CAAC) members have a broad range of experience in working with small and medium-sized IBM i customers. CAAC has a key role in working with IBM i development to help assess the value and impact of individual IBM Ideas on the broader IBM i community and has therefore reviewed your Idea.
For more information about CAAC, see www.common.org/caac
Carmelita Ruvalcaba- CAAC Program Manager