The RFE was rejected.

I guess rebooting servers is no problem if the only servers you are dealing
with resides in a lab.

Hans Chr.

On Fri, Sep 26, 2014 at 1:02 PM, Hans Christian Riksheim <bullhcr AT gmail DOT 
com>
wrote:

> The 7.1.1 client has been improved so that it won't reboot without warning
> and cause havoc amongst our customers.
>
> Good.
>
> But it still needs a reboot because of some components for the GUI. This
> means that something that should take 5 minutes now can take a very long
> time:
>
> Bureaucratic change process.
> Obtain downtime days or weeks down the road.
> Pay a technician overtime to do this trivial task at night hours.
>
> IBM should redesign the clients so that it is not dependant on extra
> software that requires a reboot. This problem was not present with 6.3 and
> earlier and the GUI for 7 isn't THAT spectacular so this should be possible.
>
> RFE is submitted here.
>
> http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/rfe/execute?use_case=viewRfe&CR_ID=59755
>
>
> Regards,
>
>
> Hans Chr.
>