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SORT-MERGE/XL is a set of utilities that allows you to sort
a group of records or merge several sorted groups of records into
one. The output contains records presented in a specified sequence.
You may use SORT-MERGE/XL as a utility and call it from the MPE XL
command interpreter (CI), or access it programmatically with the
sort and merge intrinsics from a program.
For each sort or merge operation, you must:
Open the work area (Initialization).
Specify input, output, keys, and collating sequences
for the HPSORT-MERGE/XL utility (Initialization).
Close the work area (Ending).
You may check errors and review statistics and title information as well.
Figure 1-1 "Flowchart of Intrinsic Order" shows
you how HPSORT and HPMERGE intrinsics accomplish these tasks.
Figure 1-1 Flowchart of Intrinsic Order
Refer to the MPE/iX Intrinsics Reference Manual for
detailed information about HPSORT and HPMERGE intrinsics.
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