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This directive can be used only with network licenses; accordingly, the the COUNT directive must be set if BORROW is set.
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Borrowing is enabled by default. You may wish to disable borrowing to increase checkout speed (see Optimizing license checkout speed) or to increase security. Although fairly secure, borrowing is by nature less secure than other mechanisms in LM-X. You should recognize that there is a trade-off between the convenience offered by implementing borrowing and the overall strength of your licensing solution.
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The client computer can borrow a license or return the license early using a normal checkout with the proper environment variable settings, as described in Controlling license behavior.
If a feature is borrowed for more than one hour, and the client reestablishes a connection with the license server, the client will refresh the borrow time. For example:
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