Websphere Connection Pool Problem

I am using WAS v3.5.4 and JDBC2.0 . My client wants that after the DB is shut down and restarted , the application should start on the first connection to the DB . At present , on the 1st connection to DB after DB is shut down and restarted , connection pool is getting destroyed and connection pool is in "Does not exit" state . and the next time when DB ic connected teh connection poool is created.
What we need is that , at the very 1st instance of DB connection after DB is shutdown and retstared , Connection pool should be destroyed ( which is happing now ) and new connection
is created ( which is not happening )
can anybody know , is there any facility available is Websphere v3.5.4 application server which will do this dual purpose .so that at the very 1st connection of DB , we will able to run our application.
thanks is advance
Sailendra Panigrahi

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[This message has been edited by Skinner Seymour (edited December 11, 2001).]

You will get your connection as soon as soneone tries to connect to the database though WAS