There are occasions where it is valuable to limit the time that a FairCom DB transaction is allowed to span. Long held transactions can cause a number of application related issues. Examples of this includes holding locks on a record, or preventing updates to be available to other users in a timely manner. A new FairCom DB configuration option is available to limit the time of a pending transaction. Specify the following in the c-tree Server configuration file, ctsrvr.cfg to limit the time of a transaction: