Record Management Services
Record Management Services are procedures in the VMS, RSTS/E, RT-11 and high-end RSX-11 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.
RMS supports four record access methods:
RMS supports four record formats:
- Fixed length
- Variable length
- Variable record length with fixed-length control blocks
- Stream files
- * STREAM: Records terminated by CRLF
- * STREAM_CR: Records terminated by CR
- * STREAM_LF: Records terminated by LF
