The following table summarizes all qualifiers for the ADD, CHANGE, and TEMPLATE commands. The defaults are those supplied by FIS.
| GDE Command Qualifiers | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| QUALIFIER | DEF | MIN | MAX | NAM | REG | SEG | 
| * DEFAULT is the default region- and segment-name ** MUMPS is the default file-name *** May vary by platform **** -NONULL_SUBSCRIPTS | ||||||
| -AC[CESS_METHOD]=code | BG | - | - | - | - | X | 
| -AL[LOCATION]=size(blocks) | 100 | 10 | 2**24 | - | - | X | 
| -BL[OCK_SIZE]=size(bytes) | 1024 | 512 | 65024 | - | - | X | 
| -C[OLLATION_SEQUENCE]=id-number (integer) | 0 | 0 | 255 | - | X | - | 
| -D[YNAMIC_SEGMENT]=segment-name (chars) | * | 1A | 16A/N | - | X | - | 
| -EX[TENSION_COUNT]=size (blks) | 100 | 0 | 65535 | - | - | X | 
| -F[ILE_NAME]=file-name (chars) | ** | 1A | 255A/N | - | - | X | 
| -G[LOBAL_BUFFER_COUNT]=size (blocks) | 1024 *** | 64 | 8192 *** | - | - | X | 
| -K[EY_SIZE]=size (bytes) | 64 | 3 | 255 | - | X | - | 
| -L[OCK_SPACE]=size (pages) | 40 | 10 | 64K/1000 | - | - | X | 
| -[NO]J[OURNAL]=option-list | - | - | - | - | X | - | 
| -[NO]N[ULL_SUBSCRIPTS] | **** | - | - | - | X | - | 
| -R[ECORD_SIZE]=size (bytes) | 256 | 7 | 32767 | - | X | - | 
| -R[EGION] region-name (chars) | * | 1A | 16A/N | X | - | - | 
| -R[ESERVED_BYTES]=size (bytes) | 0 | 0 | blocksize | - | - | X |