>>My job as the hired gun is to solve this problem, not tell them that a decade or more
>>of development is based on a framework that some don't like.
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>FWIW, in code that works correctly otherwise, the suggestion about a resource timing out and losing its connection or handle after 45 to 60 minutes seems to me the most likely cause.

Yeah, but I wouldn't think it would fail on the same record each time, and it is.

Tamar