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Table of Contents
  - Building a Job File
 
  - Initiating a Batch Job
 
  - Checking on the Status of your Job
 
  - Scheduling a Batch Job
 
  - Terminating a Batch Job
 
 
This chapter discusses using SORT-MERGE/XL in batch mode.
It shows how to build a job file, initiate it, schedule it, and
terminate it if necessary.
    
You can create a job file containing SORT-MERGE/XL commands
and run it in batch mode. A batch job, which can contain one or
more commands, is executed independently of your interactive session.
This frees your terminal for other processing. This technique is known as
streaming a job and is initiated with the MPE XL :STREAM command.
The section below, "Initiating a Batch Job" discusses streaming a job file.
    
    
     
    
     
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