Helen,

Now I know why the transaction mechanism is/was difficult to understand. I
don't know if this is IBO, FB, if its a BUG or as DESIGNED. But this is what
I found out:

1.My application started on two different machines (both W2000)
Everything works as designed. And you are right about the commits and so on
application1 and application2 have two different transaction handles, like
expected.

2.the SAME application started twice on the same machine (W2000, this the FB
server machine as well )
Now everything is different. It's almost impossible to understand what
happens. If I look at the monitor then application1 and application2 use the
SAME transaction Handle !!!

So this made me almost going berzerk all day !!!

So,
can you explain this to me?
Is it a bug ?

Leon