User-supplied properties are those characteristics that you specify when you are defining a CDO element. The datatype property is an example. (Compare this to system-supplied properties, which are explained under the system-properties help topic.) In the following example, the CDO SHOW FIELD/ALL command displays both the user and system-specified properties for FIELD_B. Only the datatype property was specified by the user. CDO> SHOW FIELD FIELD_B/ALL Definition of field FIELD_B | acl (IDENTIFIER=[VCD,MCGUIRE],ACCESS=READ+ | WRITE+MODIFY+ERASE+SHOW+DEFINE+CHANGE+DELETE+CONTROL+OPERATOR+ADMINIS TRATOR) | (IDENTIFIER=[*,*],ACCESS=READ+WRITE+MODIFY+E RASE+SHOW+OPERATOR+ADMINISTRATOR) | Created time 2-FEB-1988 12:25:00.83 | Modified time 2-FEB-1988 12:25:00.83 | Owner MCGUIRE | Datatype signed longword | | History entered by MCGUIRE ([VCD,MCGUIRE]) | | using CDO V5.0 | | to CREATE definition on 2-FEB-1988 12:24:59.71 CDO>