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Native Language Support for KSAM XL Files by Maisie Lau Commercial Systems Division Native Language Support is available for KSAM XL with this release of MPE/iX. When a language attribute is assigned to a KSAM XL file, all the keys of type BYTE are sorted according to that specified language collating sequence. Native Language Support guarantees that both one-byte and two-byte character keys are compared and sorted according to the collating sequence of the language. CREATE A KSAM XL FILE WITH LANGUAGE ATTRIBUTE There are two ways to create a KSAM XL file with language attribute. It can be done with a BUILD command, or programmatically using HPFOPEN/FOPEN. The language of the KSAM XL used must be installed on the system prior to file creation. BUILD Command When using the BUILD command, the parameter LANG=LANGNAME or LANG=LANGNUM may be supplied. NATIVE-3000 is used as the default language attribute if no language is specified. HPFOPEN/FOPEN a KSAM XL file When HPFOPEN/FOPEN is used to create a KSAM XL file programmatically, you must provide the langnum in word 10 of the KSAMPARAM array. The flagword (word 15) must be set to 1 if a language other than 0 (Native-3000) is used to denote that word 10 contains valid information. FILE SYSTEM INTRINSICS The same KSAM XL file system intrinsics can be used to access the KSAM XL files with default NATIVE-3000 or native language attribute.