NBSpool for MPE Reference Guide

Chapter 4
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MERGE
The MERGE command merges a subset of spool files together to form one new disk file. The order
in which the files will be merged is determined by the
SORT command. If the output file is a disk
file, it will be created if it does not exist. If it does exist, it will be purged unless a file equation is
issued with
ACC=APPEND. Append access will do just that, append to an existing file.
Like the
KEEP command, sequencing information and passwords will be stripped out. In addition,
scheduled jobs will have an additional record placed before each
JOB command which is used by
NBSpool’s
STREAM command when restreaming.
Note. Only waiting and scheduled jobs will be merged.
MERGE Syntax
I> MERGE [subset] ;FILE=filename
[;REC=[recsize]
[,[blkfact]
[,[F|V]
[,[ASCII|BINARY]]]]]
[;NEWPRI=inpri]
[;ASK ]
[;PASS ]
[;PURGE ]