Syntax options: BUFFER MEMORY IS LOCAL BUFFER MEMORY IS GLOBAL Specifies whether RUJ buffers will be allocated in global or local memory. The RUJ buffers used by each process are normally allocated in local virtual memory. With the introduction of row caching, these buffers now can be assigned to a shared global section (global memory) on OpenVMS, so that the recovery process can process this in-memory buffer and possibly avoid a disk access. You can define this buffer memory to be global to improve row caching performance for recovery. If row caching is disabled, then buffer memory is always local.