Program Editor Contention and Slow to Apply

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Caleb -
We've run into some challenges with editing our program releases.
1) Contention when more than one person is in the Program Editor caused overwriting of changes (like multiple people in an Excel spreadsheet).
2) Changes are very slow to apply (maybe because it's checking/writing all the records?).
3) Oftentimes, I have to click Apply / OK multiple times and even get prompted when x-ing out of the window after having Applied. In those situations I usually end up clicking Cancel and hoping my changes have actually applied. There's not a particular situation in which this occurs, it's just quite often.

Background: With the way we're setup, the Program is 2010 and each Program Release consolidates the efforts of all of our software development teams, each of which has their own Product. Even after some consolidation of objectives for release 10R1 (Q1 work), we have 68 objectives (epic themes) just for 10R1.

Have you heard about any of this before?
Have you guys considered having the Apply / OK / Cancel buttons on the Epic Editor so only one record needs to be written at a time? (We'd still need them on the Program Editor to save any prioritization changes.)

Thanks,
Debbie W.