Re: ACS central deployment twice as slow launching since upgrading to 1.1.8.4

[Vernon Hamberg <vhamberg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Paul

There is a setting, as I recall, to cache things that can help with 
startup - it is meant for centralized deployment - I forget where it is 
set up - hope someone else has details - and it might be in the quick 
start and the general documentation.

HTH
Vern

On 7/26/2020 8:42 PM, Steinmetz, Paul via MIDRANGE-L wrote:
> Since upgrading our ACS from 1.1.8.2 to 1.1.8.4 (we skipped 1.1.8.3), our initial session takes 13 seconds.
> Users are complaining.
> We use central deployment from a share to a Windows server.
> Previously, is was about 5 seconds.
>
> I opened a case.
> IBM reported back that this is normal.
>
> >From IBM support.
> When you first opened the hod session IBM i ACS was not running yet and the product had to be initialized. That took about 5 seconds.
> Then the product had to check out an 5770XW1 license and that process took about 2 seconds.
> then the 5250 session actually connected to the main menu and that took about 6 seconds.
>
> Successive sessions from same PC take 5 seconds.
>
> One thing that I did notice is that you are running with Java 8, and on Java 8 with IBM i ACS 1.1.8.4 a launching splash screen is no longer displayed. The splash screen was updated, but that update leverages capabilities that aren't available in Java 8, but in Java 11 and later.
>
> So, I have noticed that when I launch IBM i ACS 1.1.8.4 with Java 8 my perception of launch time is that it is much longer because I don't see anything happening. Where when I launch with java 11 it doesn't seem like it takes as long because I am seeing progress happening, but in reality the launch times are fairly similar, so maybe that is coming into play?
>
> Anyone in the group noticing similar issues?
>
> Any resolutions?
> Thank You
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