CONTENTS

  Title Page

  Copyright Page

  Preface

  SORT/MERGE DESCRIPTION

  1      Sorting Records
    1.1       Multiple Keys
    1.2       Equal Keys
    1.3       Output File Organization
    1.4       Sorting Process

  2      Merging Files

  3      Collating Sequence

  4      SORT/MERGE Specification File
    4.1       Converting Version 3 Specification Files
    4.2       Entering Terminal Input
    4.3       Batch SORT/MERGE Job

  5      Optimization
    5.1       User Optimization Options
    5.2       Assigning Work Files To Different Devices
    5.3       Working Set Extent
    5.4       SORT Optimization Qualifiers
    5.5       System Manager Optimization Options

  6      Summary of SORT/MERGE Commands

  SORT/MERGE USAGE SUMMARY

  SORT/MERGE QUALIFIERS
    /CHECK_SEQUENCE
    /COLLATING_SEQUENCE
    /DUPLICATES
    /KEY
    /PROCESS
    /SPECIFICATION
    /STABLE
    /STATISTICS
    /WORK_FILES

  INPUT FILE QUALIFIERS
    /FORMAT

  OUTPUT FILE QUALIFIERS
    /ALLOCATION
    /BUCKET_SIZE
    /CONTIGUOUS
    /FORMAT
    /INDEXED_SEQUENTIAL
    /OVERLAY
    /RELATIVE
    /SEQUENTIAL

  SPECIFICATION FILE QUALIFIERS
    /CDD_PATH_NAME
    /CHECK_SEQUENCE
    /COLLATING_SEQUENCE
    /CONDITION
    /DATA
    /FIELD
    /INCLUDE
    /KEY
    /OMIT
    /PAD
    /PROCESS
    /STABLE
    /WORK_FILES

  TABLES

  SORT-1   ASCII Collating Sequence

  SORT-2   DEC Multinational Collating Sequence