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Header Specification Column Entries [ HP RPG/XL Utilities-Part 1 XSORT ] MPE/iX 5.0 Documentation


HP RPG/XL Utilities-Part 1 XSORT

Header Specification Column Entries 

The following table summarizes the types of column entries.

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|              |              |                                                              |
|   Columns    |   Entries    |                         Explanation                          |
|              |              |                                                              |
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|              |              |                                                              |
|     1-5      |  Any value   | Line number.                                                 |
|              |              |                                                              |
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|              |              |                                                              |
|      6*      |      H       | Header line identification.                                  |
|              |              |                                                              |
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|              |              |                                                              |
|    7-12*     |    SORTA     | Address-out sort.                                            |
|              |              |                                                              |
|              |    SORTR     | Record-out sort.                                             |
|              |              |                                                              |
|              |    SORTC     | Count-only sort.                                             |
|              |              |                                                              |
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|              |              |                                                              |
|   13-17**    |    1-256     | Largest sum of control field lengths for any Record Section  |
|              |              | (in bytes).                                                  |
|              |              |                                                              |
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|              |              |                                                              |
|     18**     |      A       | Records in sorted file to be in ascending order by control   |
|              |              | fields.                                                      |
|              |              |                                                              |
|              |      D       | Records in sorted file to be in descending order by control  |
|              |              | fields.                                                      |
|              |              |                                                              |
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|              |              |                                                              |
|    19-25     |    Blank     | Reserved.                                                    |
|              |              |                                                              |
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|              |              |                                                              |
|      26      |    Blank     | Use standard ASCII collating sequence in compare operations. |
|              |              |                                                              |
|              |      S       | Use an alternate collating sequence in compare operations.   |
|              |              | ALTSEQ specs will define the collating sequence desired.     |
|              |              |                                                              |
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|              |              |                                                              |
|      27      |  0 or blank  |   Print:  XSORT specifications                               |
|              |              |         Diagnostic messages                                  |
|              |              |         Statistics                                           |
|              |              |         Abort messages                                       |
|              |              |         Display messages                                     |
|              |              |                                                              |
|              |      1       |   Print:  Statistics                                         |
|              |              |         Abort messages                                       |
|              |              |         Display messages                                     |
|              |              |                                                              |
|              |      2       |   Print:  Abort messages                                     |
|              |              |         Display messages                                     |
|              |              |                                                              |
|              |      3       | Print only display messages.                                 |
|              |              |                                                              |
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|              |              |                                                              |
|    28***     |    Blank     | Retain control fields on output records in Record-out sort   |
|              |              | jobs.                                                        |
|              |              |                                                              |
|              |      X       | Drop control fields from output records in Record-out sort   |
|              |              | jobs.                                                        |
|              |              |                                                              |
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|              |              |                                                              |
|   29-32***   |    1-1000    | Length of output records in Record-out sorts.                |
|              |              |                                                              |
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|              |              |                                                              |
|    33-39     |    Blank     | Reserved.                                                    |
|              |              |                                                              |
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|              |              |                                                              |
|    40-80     |     Any      | Comments.                                                    |
|              |  Characters  |                                                              |
|              |              |                                                              |
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*    Columns that must be filled in for all sorts.
**   Columns that must be filled in for Address-out and Record-out sorts.
***  Columns that must be filled in for Record-out sorts.



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