XTAB_ONLY_OCTAL_ESCAPE environment variable

Use the XTAB_ONLY_OCTAL_ESCAPE environment variable to allow only octal escape characters for the RECORDEND delimiter of an external table (XTAB) in versions which support the C escape characters.

>>-setenv--XTAB_ONLY_OCTAL_ESCAPE--+-1-+-------------------------------><
                                   '-0-'

1: Use only octal escape characters for the RECORDEND delimiter of an external table.
0: Allow all standard C escape sequences (default).

You can specify 1 and 0 to set the environment variable. You can switch back to the behavior of earlier versions (octal only escapes) by setting the XTAB_ONLY_OCTAL_ESCAPE environment variable to 1.

This environment variable can be set as session environment variable, as client environment variable and as server environment variable - in this (decreasing) order of precedence if one or more of these options are used.