o When the DCL verify process is enabled using the DCL SET VERIFY command or the DCL F$VERIFY lexical function, RMU Load writes the .rrd file being processed to SYS$OUTPUT. o There is no equivalent to the VARCHAR or VARYING STRING data types in the record definition language because there is no support for these types in the OpenVMS Record Management Services (RMS) environment. o The VARCHAR or VARYING STRING data type is a two-part type with an UNSIGNED WORD (16 bit integer) length prefix with a fixed TEXT portion. The length defines the actual data in the string. There is no equivalent to the VARCHAR or VARYING STRING data types in the record definition language as this type is not supported by the OpenVMS Record Management Services (RMS) environment. If you unload a VARCHAR column then it will be converted to a fixed length (space padded) TEXT field. However, TEXT to VARCHAR load and unload is handled appropriately when using the delimited format. In this format RMU Unload only outputs the text as specified by the length prefix of the VARCHAR column. Likewise, RMU Load uses the length of the delimited string to set the length in the database. o If a field is not to be used during the load into the table, it can be ignored during the load using the FILLER attribute. This allows RMU Load to use a data file which has more fields than there are columns in the database table. o The <name> referenced in the END RECORD clause must be the same as the name defined by the DEFINE RECORD statement. o The record definition files are not used when the Record_ definition qualifier is omitted. In this case RMU Unload generates a structured internal file format which contains both the record definition and the data. This format allows the unloading of LIST OF BYTE VARYING columns and NULL values. This format is the same as that generated by SQL EXPORT for its interchange (.rbr) file. Use the RMU Dump Export command to format the contents of this file for display. $ rmu/unload mf_personnel employees employees.unl $ rmu/dump/export/nodata employees.unl