OpenVMS Record Management Utilities Reference Manual

This manual provides comprehensive reference information for various utilities used to manage and maintain OpenVMS Record Management Services (RMS) files. It covers:

• Analyze/RMS_File: For examining file structures, detecting errors, generating statistics, and creating File Definition Language (FDL) files.
• Convert: For reorganizing and reformatting files.
• Convert/Reclaim: For reclaiming empty buckets in Prolog 3 indexed files to optimize space.
• File Definition Language (FDL) Facility: Detailed documentation for the FDL facility, including all sections and attributes used to define file characteristics.
• Create/FDL: For creating empty data files from FDL specifications.
• Edit/FDL: For creating and optimizing FDL files through an interactive or script-based interface.

It is intended for programmers working with OpenVMS RMS data files and includes information on utility commands, qualifiers, error handling, and performance tuning.