Yeah, the JVM encoding problem has been discovered internally and we're actively trying to correct it.

The %qparsets issue that you're seeing has been resolved internally and should be shipped as part of IRIS 2022.1.0

To resolve the issues with airlines.dat, do the following

Add to the JVM arguments of %Java Sever, "-Dfile.encoding=UTF-8" without the quotes

Edit airlines.dat and make the following changes

  • Replace "\N" which is a MySQL specific token with "" (i.e. the empty string). Due to specific interactions with InterSystem's JDBC clients with IRIS, "" is interpreted as NULL when inserted as a string. 
  • Replace "\\'" (the escaped apostrophe) with "'" (just the single apostrophe) as InterSystem's JDBC clients do not require the escape character (which would otherwise be required in SQL).

This will allow all 6162 rows be inserted.

Are you running $system.OBJ.Load("name of file") without specifying any qualifiers? If so, I believe the default qualifiers are "CUK" (compile, update only, keep source). You might want to try $system.OBJ.Load("name of file", "CK") and see if that helps.

You can run a query like SELECT * FROM someTable ORDER BY %ID and it will order by the row ID without including it as part of the result set. Ultimately we would need more information (like the query you're running) to provide additional answers, but ORDER BY %ID sounds like what you want to use.

$system.OBJ.IsUpToDate()might fit the bill for your first question.

set sc = $system.OBJ.GetClassList(.classes)
set cls="", outdated=""
for {
    set cls = $order(classes(cls))
    quit:(cls="")
    if '$system.OBJ.IsUpToDate(cls) set outdated = outdated _ $lb(cls)
}
for i=1:1:$listlength(outdated) {
    write $listget(outdated, i)
}

should work for your 2nd question (documentation here: https://docs.intersystems.com/irislatest/csp/documatic/%25CSP.Documatic....)

Create a simple %Status like

set status = $system.Status.Error(5001, "This is an error")

and if you do 

zwrite status
status="0 "_$lb($lb(5001,"This is an error",, ....."

I cut out a significant chunk (...) because it's not relevant.

You can see that the first character in status is "0", that is because if you try a unary operator

+status, -status, 'status

 It will evaluate to the integer 0 and effectively work as a boolean flag. The part that matters is after the "0" inside the $listbuild.

The first element of $listbuild is the error code, followed by the message.

Because you set Test to 0 and nothing else, Objectscript recognizes that as a failure condition but has absolutely no information to provide beyond that. The recommendation is that you properly assign Test as a fully qualified %Status or change it to a %String where its value is equal to 

$system.Status.GetErrorText(/* some %Status instance*/)

If you're using IRIS 2020.2.0 or above (both target and source instances must be ^2020.2.0), you can try to leverage %Net.DB.Iris. It's an implementation of IRIS Native for Java/.NET/Python/Node except for Objectscript. If there is enough interest for features like %Net.DB.Iris, @Bob Kuszewski would love to hear about it and communicate that interest over to the development teams!