Creating datum objects
Datum objects are created when data is retrieved through GRM or XPM handles. See GRM extensionsXPM extensions.
They are also created with the datcreate command. datcreate creates one datum at a time and returns the new datum's handle.
If datcreate is not give any arguments, then a datum representing an empty field is created. and
For example:
andInput: datcreate
Output: datum0
To create datum with a particular value:
Input: datcreate "some data"
Output: datum1
To specify the datum's datatype:
Input: datcreate 17760705 dt
Output: datum2
If not specified, it defaults to ch
.