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Sort Specifications The specifications for our sort, if entered in the XSORT specification forms, would look like this:A brief explanation of each specification follows. Header Specifications Column Entry Explanation -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 1-5 blank No line numbers are required. 6 H The H designates this as the Header specification for the sort. 7-12 SORTR SORTR indicates that this is a Record-out sort. 13-17 4 Largest sum of control field lengths for any record section, in bytes. In this sort the total is 4. 18 A Records are to be sorted in ascending order by control field. 28 X Control fields are to be dropped on output in this sort. 29-32 33 33 is the length of the output records in this sort. It includes only the length of the data fields since the control fields are being dropped. S Option Specifications Column Entry Explanation -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 1-5 blank No line numbers are required. 6 S Indicates that this is the S Option specification for the sort. 8 Y XSORTOUT may already exist and be a different file than XSORTIN. 10-16 35 Maximum number of records to be sorted. Record Type Specifications Column Entry Explanation -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 1-5 5 Line number (optional). 6 I This is an include line. All records described will be included in the sort. 8 C Use full characters. 13-16 33 The factor 1 field, which is only one character long, ends at this position. 17-18 NE Factor 1 must not equal factor 2. 19 C Factor 1 is a constant. 20 X This is the factor 2 constant. Field Description Specifications Column Entry Explanation -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 1-5 10,20,30 Line numbers (optional). 6 F These are field description lines. 7 N This is a normal control field. This is a data field. D This is a data field. 8 C Use full characters in the field. Force a data character into the data field. V Force a data character into the data field 9-12 6,1 These are the starting positions of the data fields in the records. 13-16 9,32 These are the ending positions of the data fields in the records. 18 * This is the character you are forcing by using your column 8 entry.
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