I know this is a really old thread but I have a similar challenge.

Using 'The DEC DBMS Unload Utility' we can dump a number of .dat files from our old (very old!) VAX. I'm looking for a way to get at the data in those .dat files - could be into Oracle, SqlServer, CSV or whatever.

The DEC DBMS Unloadutility provides a quick, efficient method to extract the contents of databaserecords into RMS files.

RMS is a database-like binaryformat.

We're a stage further than Mikes problem of needing to deal with the .dbs files but I'm not getting far with the RMS files.

Any help is appreciated.

Thanks,

Chris