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Column 26 Collating Sequence This entry determines the collating sequence you want XSORT to use in its comparing operations. Characters will be compared to ascertain if one is greater than, equal to, or less than another. If you leave the column blank, XSORT will use the standard ASCII collating sequence. An S in column 26 means you want to change the standard collating sequence. To do this you must include a set of ALTSEQ specifications after the Header specification. (See Section 3.) If you specify an alternate collating sequence, you cannot use packed data for record selection factors or sort control fields. In other words, you cannot enter a P in column 8 of your Record Type specifications or in column 8 of your Field Description specs used to define control fields.