GDE Command Qualifier Summary

The following table summarizes all qualifiers for the ADD, CHANGE, and TEMPLATE commands. The defaults are those supplied by Fidelity Information Services.

GDE Command Qualifiers

QUALIFIER

DEF

MIN

MAX

NAM

REG

SEG

BG

MM

/AC[CESS_METHOD]=code

BG

- - - -

X

X

X

/AL[LOCATION]=size (blocks)

100

10

2**24

- -

X

X

X

/BL[OCK_SIZE]=size (bytes)

1024

512

65024

- -

X

X

X

/C[OLLATION_SEQUENCE]= id number (integer)

0

0

255

-

X

-

X

X

/[NO]D[EFER] DEFER

D

- - - -

X

-

X

/D[YNAMIC_SEGMENT]=segment-name (chars)

*

1

16

-

X

-

X

X

/E[XTENSION_COUNT]=size (blocks)

100

0

65535

- -

X

X

X

/F[ILE_NAME]=file-spec (chars)

**

1

255

- -

X

X

X

/G[LOBAL_BUFFER_COUNT]=size (blocks)

1024 ***

64

4096

- -

X

X

-

/[NO]J[OURNAL][=jnl-optn-lst]

N

- - -

X

-

X

X

/K[EY_SIZE]=size (bytes)

64

3

255

-

X

-

X

X

/L[OCK_SPACE]=size (pages)

40

10

1000

- -

X

X

X

/[NO]N[ULL_SUBSCRIPTS]

- - - -

X

-

X

X

/R[ECORD_SIZE]=size (bytes)

256

7

32767

-

X

-

X

X

/R[EGION] region-name (chars)

*

1

16

X

- -

X

X

/R[ESERVED_BYTES]=size (bytes)

0

0

blk-sz-7

- -

X

X

X

* $DEFAULT is the default region- and segment-name

** MUMPS is the default file-name

*** May vary by platform