The multi-trans schedule type can offer performance enhancements to TPs that are designed to take advantage of its scheduling benefits. For example, multi-trans TPs can do initiator start-up processing just once in the shell for the benefit of each multi-trans request. The multi-trans shell can also do some general cleanup processing when the initiator ends.

Another scheduling benefit occurs when multi-trans TPs allocate and open files in the shell. Thus, each request doesn't have to security check, allocate, open, and close each file.

Because the multi-trans shell remains active for only five minutes while waiting for a request, it is not recommended for applications where the anticipated rate of inbound requests is less than one every five minutes.

For more information about the multi-trans schedule type, see Multi-Trans Schedule Type.