Re: Credit Card Processing and PCI compliancy on the Power i

If you think about it it's a 1 in 10,000 chance they would be a duplicate. Has to happen now and then.

IBM can have a similar issue. Customer numbers are three digit 'prefix' followed by 7 digits and there are three different prefixes that are valid for US customers. IBM however does not ask for the prefix, only country and the last 7. You indicate US and they must try all three of the possible prefixes. So we had a customer upgrade last year where it told us "NO, you may NOT register that customer number, it is already You!" Turns out the upgrade customer number was the same last 7 (1 in 10,000,000!) as their old customer number but the three digit prefix differed. The key center only will use the first one of those that it finds valid for you. Sucked to be them! NO KEYS FOR YOU!

- Larry "DrFranken" Bolhuis

www.Frankeni.com
www.iDevCloud.com - Personal Development IBM i timeshare service.
www.iInTheCloud.com - Commercial IBM i Cloud Hosting.

On 12/5/2018 5:56 PM, Jon Paris wrote:

Could be Larry.

The biggest problem is that they were two corporate cards ... for different companies! So using the receipts to know which one I billed it to was problematic. Luckily one of them got changed recently due to fraudulent activity so they no longer match - but it cased confusion for a while there.


Jon Paris

www.partner400.com
www.SystemiDeveloper.com

On Dec 5, 2018, at 4:20 PM, DrFranken <midrange@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

They're giving you 'too much credit' Jon!!

- Larry "DrFranken" Bolhuis

www.Frankeni.com
www.iDevCloud.com - Personal Development IBM i timeshare service.
www.iInTheCloud.com - Commercial IBM i Cloud Hosting.

On 12/5/2018 12:43 PM, Jon Paris wrote:

Except - as I found out the other day - you have TWO cards (both Amex) that end in the same 4 digits! <grin>
Jon Paris
www.partner400.com
www.SystemiDeveloper.com

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