Re: DS sends updates to DB only in commit (can't find
modified data in

Yes. You're correct about the cenario. And, thank you very much, the
ReadTransaction attribute solved the problem.

About you question, we re-read the value because de application has some custom
control layers and the one that updates the object is, say, "far" from
the other call. For example, if this was a customer_action table, it is updated
in the beginning of the process. Than, it calls other services just with the
customerId as parameter and, somewhere down below the code of theses other
services, the fetch the last customer_action. We didn't want to be passing
around all the references for the objects we use in every services.