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

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B HPMERGE Intrinsic Status Returns
The following table lists the error number, message, cause, and user corrective action for
status returns for all HPMERGE intrinsics. MERGE/XL's subsystem ID is 196.
-3 MESSAGE No inputfiles parameter was specified.
CAUSE You did not specify the
inputfiles parameter in the
HPMERGEINIT intrinsic.
ACTION Specify the
inputfiles parameter.
-4 MESSAGE Neither an outputfiles nor a postprocessor
parameter was specified.
CAUSE You did not specify the
outputfiles parameter in the
HPMERGEINIT intrinsic.
ACTION Specify the
outputfiles parameter.
-5 MESSAGE If you specify the keycompare parameter, you
must not specify the keys and numkeys
parameters.
CAUSE You specified both the
keycompare parameter, and the
keys and numkeys parameters in the HPMERGEINIT
intrinsic.
ACTION Specify the
keycompare parameter or the keys and
numkeys parameters.
-6 MESSAGE If you do not specify the keycompare
parameter, you must specify the keys and
numkeys parameters.
CAUSE You did not specify the
keys and numkeys parameters in
the HPMERGEINIT intrinsic.
ACTION Specify the
keys and numkeys parameters.
-7 MESSAGE Illegal numkeys parameter.
CAUSE The
numkeys parameter does not specify the same
number of keys that are described in the the
numkeys
parameter in HPMERGEINIT.
ACTION Make the
numkeys and keys parameters pertain to the
same number of keys.