Loading Products into configurator cache on application startup
The bookshelf “Siebel Performance Tuning Guide” in section “Cache Management for Siebel Configurator” has the following text:
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"When a user starts a configuration session, Siebel Configurator loads the requested customizable product into memory. You can specify a cache (server or component) to serve requests for frequently requested customizable products to improve response times. This requires that you select the setting Explicit Product Mappings Only on the specified cache. The specified cache loads the customizable products that are mapped to it into memory before any user requests are received."
On the 8.1.1.x SIA vanilla application the configurator product definition cache files are not saved in the folder “{Siebel Root}\fs\ISS_OBrkCache\CfgObjBroker\ISS_PROD_DEF\ENU\” when the Siebel server starts up after the products were defined in Admin Product>Cache Admin. The server type cache (active and released) was defined with “Explicit Product Mappings Only” = Y. The cache files are loaded when configurator is started for the specific product when an order line item is customized.