Methods for extracting the data of a record

The getByteData() method enables all the data of a record to be returned in binary format (as bytes).

The methods of the getStringData() family return all the data of a record interpreted as text (string).

If no encoding for converting the data to text was specified by the user, the systemdependent standard encoding (in BS2000 the default value is OSD_EBCDIC_DF04_1) is used.