[Progress Communities] [Progress OpenEdge ABL] Forum Post: RE: How does client-server ABL recover from locked database record?

[Peter Judge]

> As a side note, I still wish OE would introduce *transaction* timeouts in addition to the lock wait timeouts. A transaction timeout would be >extremely helpful. I don't think that transaction timeouts should be too difficult for the database to enforce, especially for client/server >connections. Do you mean as a startup parameter? I believe you can use the STOP-AFTER block modifier to do this in code.

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