Re: 5250 and un-do -- RPG400-L

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Of course it happens, that is Murphey law - but an update counter prevents
one of the two updates
so the system is secured and I don't assume tha a user presses enter
"after" the phone is hanged up.

On Mon, Dec 18, 2017 at 8:45 PM, Buck Calabro <kc2hiz@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

On 12/18/2017 1:45 PM, Henrik Rützou wrote:

In practise in most cases these collision are rare and not worth to put a
lot of programming into - why should two
user update the same customer at the same time - and what is the chance

for

that to happen?

I very much agree with Henrik here.

Having said that, I have a real example of a husband and wife who called
customer service at the same time to make two different changes to their
joint account. The calls were triggered by an email blast.

The chance of X happening is closer to 100% than I used to think it was.

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