Yes, luckily Windows servers have to be booted quite often anyway. Sill it
is up to a 30 day wait and overtime compared to 5 minutes there and then to
install the BA client.

As I understand IBM has put this huge burden on us for one reason only: A
minor improvement in the aesthetics of the GUI.

Hans Chr.

On Tue, Nov 25, 2014 at 4:41 PM, Remco Post <r.post AT plcs DOT nl> wrote:

> it’s windows, those servers reboot every month anyway. ;-)
>
> > Op 25 nov. 2014, om 15:14 heeft Hans Christian Riksheim <
> bullhcr AT GMAIL DOT COM> het volgende geschreven:
> >
> > 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.
> >>
>
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>
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