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Appendix A HPSORT Intrinsic Status Returns
The following table lists the error number, message, cause, and user
corrective action for status returns from the HPSORT intrinsics.
SORT/XL's subsystem ID is 195.
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-1 MESSAGE If you specified the keycompare parameter, you can not specify
the keys and numkeys parameters.
CAUSE You specified the keycompare and the keys and numkeys
parameters in the HPSORTINIT intrinsic.
ACTION Specify the keycompare parameter or else specify the keys and
numkeys parameters in HPSORTINIT.
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-2 MESSAGE If you do not specify the keycompare parameter, you must
specify the keys and numkeys parameters.
CAUSE You specified neither the keycompare parameter or the keys and
numkeys parameters in the HPSORTINIT intrinsic.
ACTION Specify either the keycompare parameter or specify the keys and
numkeys parameters in the HPSORTINIT intrinsic.
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-3 MESSAGE You did not specify a reclength parameter, or you specified it
less than or equal to 0.
CAUSE You specified the reclength parameter in the HPSORTINIT
intrinsic to be less than or equal to 0. or you did not
specify an inputfile or use HPSORTINPUT.
ACTION Set the reclength parameter to a value that is greater than 1
or specify the inputfiles parameter use the HPSORTINPUT
intrinsic.
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-4 MESSAGE You must not specify the keycompare parameter if you specified
the outputoption parameter as greater than 1.
CAUSE The keycompare is only allowed when the entire record is
output.
ACTION Change outputoption to 1 or don't use keycompare.
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-5 MESSAGE FREAD error on the scratch file.
CAUSE Internal SORT/XL error.
ACTION Contact your Hewlett-Packard representative.
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-6 MESSAGE Illegal output option.
CAUSE You specified the outputoption parameter in HPSORTINIT to be
less than zero or greater than three.
ACTION Set the outputoption parameter to 0, 1, 2, or 3.
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-7 MESSAGE The scratch file cannot be opened.
CAUSE A common cause of this problem is that there is not enough
contiguous disk space available for the scratch file.
ACTION Compare the size of the file to be sorted with the available
contiguous disk space. Purge or archive files to tape as
necessary.
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-8 MESSAGE Failure on FGETINFO (inputfile).
CAUSE CCL condition code returned from the FGETINFO intrinsic called
from SORT/XL.
ACTION Make sure the file number has not been corrupted. Also refer
to the FGETINFO intrinsic in the MPE XL Intrinsics Reference
Manual (32650-90028)
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-9 MESSAGE Illegal numkeys parameter.
CAUSE You specified the numkeys parameter in HPSORTINIT to not
correlate to the number of keys in the keys parameter.
ACTION Set the numkeys parameter to correspond to the number of keys
that you specified in the keys parameter.
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-10 MESSAGE The key field is not within the specified record length.
CAUSE A key specified in your keys parameter in HPSORTINIT, indicates
a field that begins and/or ends outside of the record.
ACTION Set the key field in the keys parameter to be contained in the
record length or make sure that your record length is long
enough to contain all your keys.
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-11 MESSAGE Illegal ascending/descending code.
CAUSE The 4th element for a key in the keys array parameter in
HPSORTINIT is less than 0 or greater than 1.
ACTION Set the 4th element for a key in the keys array parameter to 0
or 1.
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-12 MESSAGE Illegal key code.
CAUSE The 3rd element in the keys array parameter in HPSORTINIT is
less than 0 or greater than 13.
ACTION Set the 3rd element in the keys array parameter to a value that
is from 0-13 inclusive.
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-13 MESSAGE Insufficient stack space.
CAUSE Input file was opened with NOBUFF and MULTI options. The stack
was used for blocking/deblocking the file and has insufficient
space.
ACTION Open your files with the BUFF and NOMULTI options.
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-14 MESSAGE The input record does not include all key fields.
CAUSE You are using variable length records that contain records that
are not long enough to contain the key fields.
ACTION Set the key field in the keys parameter to be contained in the
shortest record length or make sure that your shortest record
is long enough to contain all your keys.
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-15 MESSAGE The input record is too long.
CAUSE The input record is longer than specified in the reclength
parameter.
ACTION Alter the reclength parameter to accurately reflect the record
length.
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-16 MESSAGE There are too many input records.
CAUSE SORT/XL internal error.
ACTION Contact your Hewlett-Packard representative.
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-17 MESSAGE FWRITE error on the scratch file.
CAUSE SORT/XL internal error.
ACTION Contact your Hewlett-Packard representative.
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-18 MESSAGE FREAD error on the input file.
CAUSE CCL returned from the FREAD intrinsic called from SORT/XL.
ACTION Make sure your input file number has not been corrupted. Also
refer to the MPE XL Intrinsics Reference Manual (32650-90021).
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-19 MESSAGE FWRITE error on the output file.
CAUSE CCL returned from the FWRITE intrinsic called from SORT/XL.
ACTION Make sure your output file number has not been corrupted. Also
refer to the MPE XL Intrinsics Reference Manual (32650-90021).
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-20 MESSAGE FCLOSE error on the scratch file.
CAUSE SORT/XL internal error.
ACTION Contact your Hewlett-Packard representative.
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-21 MESSAGE $NULL is not a valid input file.
CAUSE You specified $NULL as an input file.
ACTION Change the file specification to another file.
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-22 MESSAGE Failure on FGETINFO (outputfile).
CAUSE CCL returned from the FGETINFO intrinsic called from SORT/XL.
ACTION Make sure the output file number has not been corrupted. Also
refer to the MPE XL Intrinsics Reference Manual (32650-90028).
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-23 MESSAGE Error in attempting to write EOF on the scratch file.
CAUSE Internal SORT/XL error.
ACTION Contact your Hewlett-Packard representative.
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-24 MESSAGE Error attempting to rewind the scratch file.
CAUSE Internal SORT/XL error.
ACTION Contact your Hewlett-Packard representative.
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-25 MESSAGE Illegal characteristics for opening the scratch file with
FOPEN.
CAUSE Internal SORT/XL error.
ACTION Contact your Hewlett-Packard representative.
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-26 MESSAGE Insufficient stack space for the specified allocation.
CAUSE The amount of space that you specified in the memsize parameter
does not allow enough room to perform the sort.
ACTION Increase the value of the parameter or do not specify the
memsize| parameter and let SORT/XL use as much stack space as
it needs.
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-27 MESSAGE Failure of FFILEINFO (inputfile).
CAUSE CCL returned from the FFILEINFO intrinsic called from SORT/XL.
ACTION Make sure that the input file number is not corrupted. Also
refer to the MPE XL Intrinsics Reference Manual (32650-90028).
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-28 MESSAGE Failure of FFILEINFO (outputfile).
CAUSE CCL returned from the FFILEINFO intrinsic called from SORT/XL.
ACTION Make sure that the output file number is not corrupted. Also
refer to the MPE XL Intrinsics Reference Manual (32650-90028)
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-29 MESSAGE The sort language is not supported.
CAUSE The language specified in the second element of the charseq
parameter array in HPSORTINIT is not supported on your system.
ACTION Check valid language IDs by running NLUTIL. Set the second
element of the charseq array to a valid language ID.
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-30 MESSAGE NLINFO error obtaining the length of the collating sequence
table.
CAUSE Native Language (NL) not installed or internal NL error.
ACTION Contact your system manager or your Hewlett-Packard
representative.
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-31 MESSAGE NLINFO error loading the collating sequence table.
CAUSE Native Language (NL) not installed or internal NL error.
ACTION Contact your system manager or your Hewlett-Packard
representative.
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-32 MESSAGE Invalid charseq parameter.
CAUSE The first element of the charseq parameter array is a value
other than one (1).
ACTION Set the first element in the charseq parameter array to one.
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-33 MESSAGE A two-byte collating sequence table is not specified.
CAUSE A two-byte collating sequence table was not specified in the
charseq parameter although a two-byte key was specified in the
keys parameter.
ACTION Specify a two-byte sequence in both the charseq and keys
parameters.
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-34 MESSAGE FGETINFO failure on the two-byte collating sequence table.
CAUSE CCL returned from the FGETINFO intrinsic called from SORT/XL.
ACTION Make sure the file number passed in charseq is not corrupted.
Also refer to the MPE XL Intrinsics Reference Manual
(32650-90028).
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-35 MESSAGE FREAD error on the two-byte collating sequence table.
CAUSE CCL returned from the FREAD intrinsic called from SORT/XL.
ACTION Make sure the file number passed in charseq is not corrupted.
Also refer to the MPE XL Intrinsics Reference Manual
(32650-90028).
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-36 MESSAGE The file is not a valid two-byte collating sequence.
CAUSE Error returned from NLINFO intrinsic called from SORT/XL.
ACTION Check the file type. Also refer to the MPE XL Intrinsics
Reference Manual (32650-90028).
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-37 MESSAGE Two-byte xxxx is undefined in the collating sequence table; the
largest number is assigned.
CAUSE The two-byte value, xxxx, is undefined.
ACTION Change xxxx to the correct value.
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-38 MESSAGE The length of the two-byte key must be an even number of bytes.
CAUSE Although you specified a two-byte sequence, the key length
specified in the keys parameter is an odd number.
ACTION Specify the key length as an even number.
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-39 MESSAGE The file type is not a valid two-byte collating sequence table.
CAUSE The file containing the two-byte sequence has been corrupted,
or Native Language (NL) not installed or internal NL error.
ACTION Contact your system manager or your Hewlett-Packard
representative.
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-40 MESSAGE PRINT intrinsic failed in HPSORTTITLE.
CAUSE You redirected output from HPSORTTITLE to a file that is too
small; HPSORTTITLE requires two records to output information.
ACTION Allow room for at least two records when you redirect output
from HPSORTTITLE to a file.
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-41 MESSAGE PRINT intrinsic failed in HPSORTSTAT.
CAUSE You redirected output from HPSORTSTAT to a file that is too
small; HPSORTSTAT requires ten records to output information.
ACTION Allow room for at least ten records when you redirect output
from HPSORTSTAT to a file.
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-190 MESSAGE There are too many input files.
CAUSE You input more than 100 input files to SORT/XL.
ACTION Run SORT/XL several times with allowable number of files then
run MERGE/XL to merge the sorted files or consolidate several
files into one until you are within SORT/XL's limit.
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-191 MESSAGE There are no input files in the supplied parameter.
CAUSE You did not specify any input file numbers in the inputfiles
parameter of the HPSORTINIT intrinsic. The array contains no
file numbers.
ACTION Specify input file numbers in the inputfiles parameter of the
HPSORTINPUT intrinsic.
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-193 MESSAGE If you specify the keys parameter, you must also specify the
numkeys parameter.
CAUSE You specified the keys parameter without specifying the numkeys
parameter in HPSORTINIT (or vice-versa).
ACTION Specify both the numkeys and the keys parameters.
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-199 MESSAGE The record length exceeds the maximum allowed.
CAUSE Internal File System error.
ACTION Contact your Hewlett-Packard representative.
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-200 MESSAGE Insufficient memory allocated for the record size.
CAUSE You are trying to sort more data than SORT/XL can handle.
ACTION If you are sorting one large file, break it into several
smaller files. If you are sorting many large files, sort them
individually and then merge them with MERGE/XL.
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-201 MESSAGE Open of storage area failed.
CAUSE Internal SORT/XL error.
ACTION Contact your Hewlett-Packard representative.
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-202 MESSAGE NM to CM switch occurred, but NM cannot handle the sort.
CAUSE Internal SORT/XL error.
ACTION Contact your Hewlett-Packard representative.
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-203 MESSAGE Invalid input file number.
CAUSE Input file number specified in inputfiles parameter of
HPSORTINIT intrinsic is not a valid file number.
ACTION Don't hardcode a file number for the inputfiles parameter, make
sure the file number returned from the HPFOPEN or FOPEN
intrinsic is not corrupted.
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-204 MESSAGE Record length exceeds maximum allowed.
CAUSE Internal File System error.
ACTION Contact your Hewlett-Packard representative.
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-250 MESSAGE PROBE failure on the status parameter of the HPSORTINIT
intrinsic.
CAUSE The address specified in the status parameter is not within the
allowable address range.
ACTION Check the value of the status parameter.
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-251 MESSAGE PROBE failure on the inputfiles parameter of the HPSORTINIT
intrinsic.
CAUSE The address specified in the inputfiles parameter is not within
the allowable address range.
ACTION Check the value of the inputfiles parameter.
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-252 MESSAGE PROBE failure on the outputfiles parameter of the HPSORTINIT
intrinsic.
CAUSE The address specified in the outputfiles parameter is not
within the allowable address range.
ACTION Check the value of the outputfiles parameter.
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-253 MESSAGE PROBE failure on the keys parameter of the HPSORTINIT
intrinsic.
CAUSE The address specified in the keys parameter is not within the
allowable address range.
ACTION Check the value of the keys parameter.
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-254 MESSAGE PROBE failure on the altseq parameter of the HPSORTINIT
intrinsic.
CAUSE The address specified in the altseq parameter is not within the
allowable address range.
ACTION Check the value of the altseq parameter.
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-255 MESSAGE PROBE failure on the statistics parameter of the HPSORTINIT
intrinsic.
CAUSE The address specified in the statistics parameter is not within
the allowable address range.
ACTION Check the value of the statistics parameter.
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-256 MESSAGE PROBE failure on the charseq parameter of the HPSORTINIT
intrinsic.
CAUSE The address specified in the charseq parameter is not within
the allowable address range.
ACTION Check the value of the charseq parameter.
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-257 MESSAGE PROBE failure on the status parameter of the HPSORTINPUT
intrinsic.
CAUSE The address specified in the status parameter is not within the
allowable address range.
ACTION Check the value of the status parameter.
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-258 MESSAGE PROBE failure on the buffer parameter of the HPSORTINPUT
intrinsic.
CAUSE The address specified in the buffer parameter is not within the
allowable address range.
ACTION Check the value of the buffer parameter.
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-259 MESSAGE PROBE failure on the length parameter of the HPSORTINPUT
intrinsic.
CAUSE The address specified in the length parameter is not within the
allowable address range.
ACTION Check the value of the length parameter.
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-260 MESSAGE PROBE failure on the status parameter of the HPSORTOUTPUT
intrinsic.
CAUSE The address specified in the status parameter is not within the
allowable address range.
ACTION Check the value of the status parameter.
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-261 MESSAGE PROBE failure on the buffer parameter of the HPSORTOUTPUT
intrinsic.
CAUSE The address specified in the buffer parameter is not within the
allowable address range.
ACTION Check the value of the buffer parameter.
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-262 MESSAGE PROBE failure on the length parameter of the HPSORTOUTPUT
intrinsic.
CAUSE The address specified in the length parameter is not within the
allowable address range.
ACTION Check the value of the length parameter.
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-263 MESSAGE PROBE failure on the status parameter of the HPSORTEND
intrinsic.
CAUSE The address specified in the status parameter is not within the
allowable address range.
ACTION Check the value of the status parameter.
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-264 MESSAGE PROBE failure on the statistics parameter of the HPSORTEND
intrinsic.
CAUSE The address specified in the statistics parameter is not within
the allowable address range.
ACTION Check the value of the statistics parameter.
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-265 MESSAGE PROBE failure on the status parameter of the HPSORTERRORMESS
intrinsic.
CAUSE The address specified in the status parameter is not within the
allowable address range.
ACTION Check the value of the status parameter.
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-266 MESSAGE PROBE failure on the message parameter of the HPSORTERRORMESS
intrinsic.
CAUSE The address specified in the message parameter is not within
the allowable address range.
ACTION Check the value of the message parameter.
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-267 MESSAGE PROBE failure on the length parameter of the HPSORTERRORMESS
intrinsic.
CAUSE The address specified in the length parameter is not within the
allowable address range.
ACTION Check the value of the length parameter.
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-268 MESSAGE PROBE failure on the status parameter of the HPSORTSTAT
intrinsic.
CAUSE The address specified in the status parameter is not within the
allowable address range.
ACTION Check the value of the status parameter.
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-269 MESSAGE PROBE failure on the statistics parameter of the HPSORTSTAT
intrinsic.
CAUSE The address specified in the statistics parameter is not within
the allowable address range.
ACTION Check the value of the statistics parameter.
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-270 MESSAGE PROBE failure on the status parameter of the HPSORTTITLE
intrinsic.
CAUSE The address specified in the status parameter is not within the
allowable address range.
ACTION Check the value of the status parameter.
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-990 MESSAGE Previous NM error occurred.
CAUSE Internal SORT/XL error.
ACTION Contact your Hewlett-Packard representative.
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-992 MESSAGE SWITCH_TO_CM error on the SORTTITLE call.
CAUSE Internal SORT/XL error.
ACTION Contact your Hewlett-Packard representative.
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-993 MESSAGE SWITCH_TO_CM error on the SORTERRORMESS call.
CAUSE Internal SORT/XL error.
ACTION Contact your Hewlett-Packard representative.
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-994 MESSAGE SWITCH_TO_CM error on the SORTEND2 call.
CAUSE Internal SORT/XL error.
ACTION Contact your Hewlett-Packard representative.
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-995 MESSAGE SWITCH_TO_CM error on the SORTEND1 call.
CAUSE Internal SORT/XL error.
ACTION Contact your Hewlett-Packard representative.
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-996 MESSAGE SWITCH_TO_CM error on the SORTOUTPUT call.
CAUSE Internal SORT/XL error.
ACTION Contact your Hewlett-Packard representative.
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-997 MESSAGE SWITCH_TO_CM error on the SORTINPUT call.
CAUSE Internal SORT/XL error.
ACTION Contact your Hewlett-Packard representative.
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-998 MESSAGE SWITCH_TO_CM error on the SORTGETHIDP call.
CAUSE Internal SORT/XL error.
ACTION Contact your Hewlett-Packard representative.
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-999 MESSAGE SWITCH_TO_CM error on the SORTINIT call.
CAUSE Internal SORT/XL error.
ACTION Contact your Hewlett-Packard representative.
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-1000 MESSAGE HPSORTERRORMESS failed on the call to HPERRMSG.
CAUSE You called the HPSORTERRORMESS intrinsic even though there was
no error.
ACTION Only call HPSORTERRORMESS if the status parameter from the
previous intrinsic call does not equal zero.
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