Paul,
If the connection is not made as adviced by this note to a web-server .....
Then this behavior is very well to be expected.
Websphere, better said the java container, is not using this file directly but an own cached version to be maintained as websphere admin. Do you have a webserver? Then the settings/configurations of the web-server should make the connection. The webserver admin should help you out with that.
Availabilty of a good SAS plaform admin and a well prepared implementation design should have prevented your question,
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