Help me out here, Todd.
You keep complaining bitterly about the ruleset editor and rulesets in
general, and yet the GUI feature is one which most users prefer.   We won
awards for it, and it is the most often requested enhancement to the NT
product, which doesn't have one.

Why does it matter how long it takes for the ruleset editor to load your
TEC rule?
Once you have it working, why would they want to load it?

Why is your TEC rule so complicated?  Are you thresholding or something? If
all you are trying to is maintain a list of specific traps, and what you
really want is a file of them, why not just write a script and use a user
exit?  For example, the enterprise id of the trap will be accessible as
$NVE and the specific trap number as $NVS.  So you could just build a nice
big list of the ones you want in some file and then in your script grep for
those.

James Shanks
Level 3 Support
Tivoli NetView for UNIX and NT
Tivoli Software
IBM Software Group
Please note that my new id is jshanks AT us.ibm DOT com