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Unconditional Force
Your unconditional force does not represent a field present in the input
records. You might wish to place a 5 in the first position of every
output record. Using an unconditional force control field, you could
tell XSORT to place a 5 in the first available control field of the work
record.
|---|-----------------------|
Control | 5 | | Data
field portion |---|-----------------------| portion
All other control fields would then follow the 5 that has been
unconditionally forced. Assume the input records are in this format.
|------|----------------|---------------------|----------------|-------|
| Data | Control | Data | Control | Data |
| | Field A | | Field B | |
|------|----------------|---------------------|----------------|-------|
Your work record would look like this:
|-------|----------|-----------|------|
| 5 | Control | Control | Data |
| | Field A | Field B | |
|-------|----------|-----------|------|
Forced control fields affect work and output records only. They do not
change input records. The column entries for columns 9-16, 17, 18, and
19 contain further information and examples concerning specifications for
using forced control fields.