Customer information control system and method with transaction

Abstract

A distributed computer system having a plurality of end user terminals and a plurality of loosely coupled server computers that share no resources with each other. A multiplicity of user application processes are distributed over the server computers. An Enq table is stored on a first one of the server computers. The Enq table includes Enq records, each representing a locked resource. When any user application process executes an Enq instruction naming a specific resource, if the Enq table does not already contain an Enq record for the specific resource an Enq record is generated and stored in the Enq table representing the specific resource as locked. The Enq record is stored in the same Enq table on the first server computer regardless of which server computer executes the Enq instruction. If the Enq table does already contain an Enq record for the specific resource, execution of the user application process that executed the Enq instruction is suspended. When any user application process executes a Deq instruction naming a specific resource, the corresponding Enq record, if any, is deleted. In addition, execution is resumed for any user application process that was suspended when it attempted to execute an Enq instruction on the same specific resource.