OT -- 90-day limits in the financial world for downloading your data.

[Tilly, Lawrence]

It could also be data access time.  Not sure what software they're
using, but while you're doing your search you're probably tying up web
threads, worker threads in a JVM (assuming java-based application
server), database connections and cycles on the database machine. 

By limiting that to 90-day chunks they probably have a pretty good idea
of the resources you'll have tied up. If they let people pull unlimited
requests, it could have some pretty negative impact on their service.
That would not serve that customer well, nor would it look good for all
the other people trying to use it and getting poor performance.

-L

-----Original Message-----
From: gnhlug-discuss-admin at mail.gnhlug.org
[mailto:gnhlug-discuss-admin at mail.gnhlug.org] On Behalf Of Greg Rundlett
Sent: Sunday, November 21, 2004 10:08 PM
To: Fred
Cc: Bill Mullen; GNHLUG
Subject: Re: OT -- 90-day limits in the financial world for downloading
your data.


Fred wrote:

>On Sat, 2004-11-20 at 12:17, Bill Mullen wrote:
>
>  
>
>>I suspect that the real issue here is merely one of storage space; by 
>>setting a fixed period for which they will make data available (last 
>>90 days, last 3 statement periods, whatever), they can move enough 
>>transactions out of the database to keep up with the new transactions 
>>being added, all while keeping their online storage capacity fairly 
>>static and predictable.
>>    
>>
>
>It's not that even -- online, a full 18 months of data is available; I 
>am only allowed to access it 90 days at a time. The 90-day window can 
>be
>*anywhere* in the total dataset; I just can't pull more than a 90-day
>chunk of it at any given time.
>