Quote Originally Posted by SilverBack View Post
It has been standard practice in IT for decades to lock records (as in a loan record) so that any orders against it are committed without any conflict from any other order.
Couldn't help but laugh, I was reading your email while waiting for some acceptance tests to run where I've been 'mending' them to do exactly this!

I posted some time back, it's searchable; but IIRC Harmoney didn't write the system, they brought it from a chap and they skin it. If they don't have direct access to make changes/submit PRs, and this still holds true, they could be at the mercy of the development company on fixes and features.