1 What's New in This Release

This chapter describes new product features.

What's New in Siebel Performance Tuning Guide, Siebel Innovation Pack 2015, Rev. A

Notes have been added to this guide regarding a change in the software used with the local database for the Siebel Mobile Web Client.

What's New in Siebel Performance Tuning Guide, Siebel Innovation Pack 2015

Table 1-1 lists the changes in this revision of the documentation to support this release of the software.

Note: Siebel Innovation Pack 2015 is a continuation of the Siebel 8.1/8.2 release.

Table 1-1 What's New in Siebel Performance Tuning Guide, Siebel Innovation Pack 2015

Topic	Description
"About Synchronous and Asynchronous Requests Forwarded by SRBroker to Batch Components"	Modified topic. Added information about parameter settings for Siebel Mobile applications, particularly when load balancing is used.

What's New in Siebel Performance Tuning Guide, Siebel Innovation Pack 2014

Table 1-2 lists the changes in this revision of the documentation to support this release of the software.

Note: Siebel Innovation Pack 2014 is a continuation of the Siebel 8.1/8.2 release.

Table 1-2 What's New in Siebel Performance Tuning Guide, Siebel Innovation Pack 2014

Topic	Description
"Additional Parameters Affecting Siebel Application Object Manager Performance"	Modified topic. Setting the MemProtection parameter to FALSE is recommended for all supported UNIX and Linux operating systems.
"Tuning Server Request Broker (SRBroker)"	Modified topic. Updated the information about how requests are handled by target batch components when the maximum number of tasks has been reached, given different request types and HonorMaxTasks parameter settings.
"Configuring the Data Block Size of HTTP Requests for the Siebel Developer Web Client"	New topic. Added information about using the DataBlockSize parameter to configure the data block size of HTTP requests for the Siebel Developer Web Client.
Chapter 8, "Tuning Siebel Configurator for Performance"	Modified multiple topics.Siebel Configurator precaching applies only to deployments running Siebel Configurator on a dedicated server.Updated several of the parameter descriptions.
Chapter 10, "Tuning Siebel EIM for Performance"	Modified multiple topics. Updated several topics to reference IBM DB2 instead of IBM DB2 for z/OS.
"Database Guidelines for Optimizing Siebel EIM" "Disabling Transaction Logging for Siebel EIM"	Modified topics. Updated references to the system preference that enables transaction logging.
"About Siebel Remote"	Modified topic. For the current release, several server components moved from the Siebel Remote component group (alias Remote) into the Disconnected Mobile Synchronization component group (alias MobileSync). Siebel Remote customers must enable both component groups.
"General Performance Guidelines for Customer Configurations"	Modified topic. Updated the information about using case insensitivity.
"Tuning the Web Server Computer for All Applicable UNIX and Linux Operating Systems"	Modified topic. Updated the information about setting the thread stack size on the Web server computer.
"Tuning the Siebel Server for AIX"	Modified topic. Updated some of the environment variable references to be consistent with currently supported versions of IBM AIX.
"Tuning Kernel Settings for AIX"	Modified topic. Updated AIX kernel tuning information.