I am dealing with a zope system where Verisign is sending a POST to our server for ecommerece purposes. Currently I am writing the entire contents of the POST from verisign to the ZODB however I have a problem that some of these POSTs are not being recorded because an error occurs later in the transaction. What I would like to do is isolate this recording from everything else. So that no matter what other error is raised that part will commit so I have a record of the conversation later. Currently I can put the logging step as the very first step in the conversation with verisign and call get_transaction().commit() (I am currently using zope 2.7 and working on the migration to zope 2.9) What would be the best way to deal with this problem? Should I just do a commit of the transaction as the very first step so that part is written and then zope will start a new transaction for the rest of the stuff done? Should I somehow tell zope to run a certain function as its own transaction? Also when I switch over to zope 2.9 how will these things need to be changed? Thanks