COBOL Slowness

We are an Infor/Lawson customer working on an upgrade to their version 10 application suite. We are seeing significant delays in our batch job processing. When only one job is running with no users in our new environment we see process time 4 - 5 times longer than when they are run in version 9. We are running in a VM environment with the application and DB servers on separate servers running under Windows 2012 and SQL Server 2012 R2. After verifying and increasing resources on the servers we noted three things when the jobs are running.

1. There is a FINDBEGRNG being used against the indexes, The increased times are associated with this call. The programs have been recompiled, with no change in the timing.

2. While monitoring and capturing processing on the PID associated with the job there were messages indicating that that _ MFREDIR that the name not found or no such file. It attempted to locate the file multiple times with different file extensions - dll, gnt, int, 390, and lbr. The operation for Query Directory on path e:\MicroFocus\bin64\_MFREDIR(with each extension dll, gnt, int, and lbr) having a result of NO SUCH FILE with Detail: Filter:_MFREDIR(with each extension dll, gnt, int, and lbr). Same result and detail for QueryDirectory on E:\lsfprod\law\print\(User_ID). For QueryOpen Operation it appears to be looking for _MFREDIR in all of the directory structure - E:\MicroFocus\bin64, E:\MicroFocus\binn64, E:\MicroFocus\bin, C:\Windows\System32\, C:\Windows\System\, C:\Windows, E:\LUU, E:\cygwin64, E:\lsfprod\gen\bin, and under E:\Java, E:\PERL. All doing the QueryOpen looking for _MFREDIR.dll.

3. After the job starts running and starts to perform COBOL it appears to stop and resource utilization drops to virtually no activity, which might be when the FINDBEGRNG call on the index might me running or extremely slow.

attachments show timestats on one job and PID process monitor sample