I believe it is an efficiency of Minisoft to pre-open the files (certain
other things do this too).  The job MSJOB,MGR.MINISOFT, will change to the
last user who logged on through the listener job.

Perhaps Neal of Minisoft can shed more light on the subject.
jds

Chuck writes:
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>
> Also, I recently spoke with tech support at Minisoft about
> the way their
> driver opens every file listed in your DSN when your client
> application
> connects.
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>
> To me this seems like alot of overhead, especially if your
> app is stateless
> and reconnects for every data access. I now must create
> multiple DSN's, so
> that a missing file does not prevent all connections, which
> can require an
> app to perform multiple connects and again increase overhead.
>
> Am I wrong in thinking that the files should not be opened
> until they are
> first referenced? Just curious as I am sure Minisoft will not
> change this.
>