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Chapter 1 Introduction

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Processing a Sort or Merge
Sorting
Merging
Keys
Error Checking
Large File Support
This chapter introduces the basic concepts involved in sorting and merging, and provides information about accessing SORT-MERGE/XL programmatically with the sort and merge intrinsics. Topics include:

  • Processing a Sort or Merge

  • Sorting

  • Merging

  • Keys

  • Error Checking

  • Large File Support

For information on using SORT-MERGE/XL as a utility, refer to SORT-MERGE/XL General User's Guide.



Preface

Processing a Sort or Merge