In 2000, LexisNexis purchased RiskWise, a St. Cloud, Minnesota company. In 2002 it acquired a Canadian research database company, Quicklaw. In 2004, Reed Elsevier Group, parent company of LexisNexis, purchased Seisint, Inc, of Boca Raton, Florida.
Format for interchanging spreadsheet/database data; recognized by Filemaker, Excel, and others. MER stands for Format for interchanging spreadsheet/database data; recognized by Filemaker, Excel, and others.
For the variable length file (RECFM=V) the LRECL is the maximum record length in the file. The actual length, number of bytes in the record, is stored at the beginning of each record. This information is called the Record Descriptor Word (RDW). The RDW is a 4 byte Integer Binary (IB) field.