SORT-MERGE/XL Programmer's Guide (32650-90884)

1 Introduction

This chapter introduces the basic concepts involved in sorting and merging, and provides

information about accessing SORT-MERGE/XL programmatically with the sort and merge

intrinsics. Topics include:

• Processing a Sort or Merge

• Sorting

• Merging

• Keys

• Error Checking

• Large File Support

For information on using SORT-MERGE/XL as a utility, refer to SORT-MERGE/XL

General User's Guide.