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Record Management Services

Record Management Services (RMS) are procedures in the VMS, RSTS/E, RT-11 and RSX-11M operating systems that programs may call to process files and records within files. Its file formats and procedures are similar to of those in some IBM access methods for several of its mainframe computer operating systems and by other vendors for file and record management. VMS RMS is an integral part of the system software; its procedures run in executive mode.

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Record Management Services (RMS) are procedures in the VMS, RSTS/E, RT-11 and RSX-11M operating systems that programs may call to process files and records within files.12 Its file formats and procedures are similar to of those in some IBM access methodsa for several of its mainframe computer operating systemsb and by other vendors for file and record management. VMS RMS is an integral part of the system software; its procedures run in executive mode.3 (RMS was not initially integrated into RT-11 and RSTS/E, but was available as an added charge "layered product". It was later added to RSTS/E and was a part of its standard documentation set.)

RMS supports four record access methods:

  • Sequential Access
  • Relative Record Number Access
  • Record File Address Access
  • Indexed Access

RMS supports four record formats:

  • Fixed length
  • Variable length
  • Variable record length with fixed-length control blocks
  • Stream files (records separated by termination characters)
    • STREAM: Records terminated by CRLF
    • STREAM_CR: Records terminated by CR
    • STREAM_LF: Records terminated by LF

Digital provided the File Definition Language (FDL) which could be used to define the structure of an RMS file.4

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  1. VAX-11 Record Management Services Reference Manual (PDF). DEC. February 1979. AA-D031B-TE.
  2. OpenVMS Record Management Services Reference Manual. June 2002. p. 23. Retrieved 20 November 2017.
  3. This article is based on material taken from Record+Management+Services at the Free On-line Dictionary of Computing prior to 1 November 2008 and incorporated under the "relicensing" terms of the GFDL, version 1.3 or later.
  4. "This URL has been excluded from the Wayback Machine". itec.suny.edu. April 2001. Retrieved 20 August 2023. {{cite web}}: Cite uses generic title (help)
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