PromptPay computer error causes frenzy on last day of 2017 as transfers fail

[fullcave]

22 hours ago, weegee said:

BKK bank is back into their old ways again....this time a transfer to my bank took 6 days. It was good for a while after complaints about this on one of the forums on here, and monies were received the next day as it should be...

Oh well....

 

Happy New Year to all.

Rgds

weegee

This is why we no longer use BKK. 

[bluesofa]

23 hours ago, YetAnother said:

as a career IT guy, this demonstrates remarkable incompetence;

back in the usa, the transition from 1999 to 2000  (the effort boiled down to a standard 1 year addition with a huge amount of checking, no huge code rewrites)

was initiated Way in advance and as a result there were no problems;

that is just simple managerial foresight

 

This is a short quote from an article in khaosodenglish:

“Predee Daochai, executive of Kasikorn Bank and president of the Thai Bankers Association, said the problem was caused by the central system’s calendar in which the last day of 2017 incorrectly set to 2018.”

Edited January 2, 2018 by bluesofa

[KKr]

1 hour ago, bluesofa said:

 

This is a short quote from an article in khaosodenglish:

“Predee Daochai, executive of Kasikorn Bank and president of the Thai Bankers Association, said the problem was caused by the central system’s calendar in which the last day of 2017 incorrectly set to 2018.”

so the code was not tested at all.
Let alone in a testing environment before being released to the production system

 

[bluesofa]

51 minutes ago, KKr said:

so the code was not tested at all.
Let alone in a testing environment before being released to the production system

 

It was released into production in order for customers to complete testing it, which they successfully did.

Isn't that how it works here?

[Evolare]

What do they mean with popular system?

The system thats forced upon everyone even if they dont want it.

 

Some of my friends who are businessowners have been told by government that they have to have ot done by i dont remember when this year...or face concequences.