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From: "Dan Skinner" <JDanSkinner@JDanSkinner.com>
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.kermit.misc
Subject: Re: Transaction processing revisited
Date: Thu, 22 Jul 2004 09:34:32 -0500
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"Frank da Cruz" <fdc@columbia.edu> wrote in message
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> It is an increasingly common question: how to upload a file in such
> a way that another process won't try to process it before the upload
> is complete? This sort of operation -- in which a variety of clients
> upload transactions (files) to a central service for processing --
> is commonly used in EDI applications, insurance claims, etc. You want
> to be sure that each transaction is processed exactly once; not zero,
> or two or more times, and that processing takes place only when the
> upload is complete and successful.
<snip>
> - Frank
It must me my morning to grouse.
I've noticed several postings on this subject on this group
and others in the last few weeks.
Seem to me that folks are looking for something like:
connect <server>
do transaction <as I intended>
quit
<RANT>
How come we pay good programmers to write easy programs
like accounts receivable and payroll and airline reservations.
We provide them with training, detail specifications, and constant
supervision.
The same organization will then assign a total newbee to construct
a complex data communications system which exchanges critical
business data among incompatable computers with no more than
a CD (K-95, Procomm, PCAnywhere etc) and some general outline
of the system goals.
</RANT>
Regards...Dan.