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.p...@plcs.nl> wrote: > it’s windows, those servers reboot every month anyway. ;-) > > > Op 25 nov. 2014, om 15:14 heeft Hans Christian Riksheim < > bull...@gmail.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 < > bull...@gmail.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. > >> > > -- > > Met vriendelijke groeten/Kind Regards, > > Remco Post > r.p...@plcs.nl > +31 6 248 21 622 >
