When you sort or merge data with SORT-MERGE/XL, your sorting
key is one of many data types. This appendix explained the format
of SORT-MERGE/XL's generic data types and gives language equivalents
of them.
For more information about data types, refer to Data
Types Conversion Programmer's Guide.
In HPSORTINIT or HPMERGEINIT you specify the type of data that is sorted by
your keys. The data type is given in the third element of the keys parameter array. For more information about specifying
keys, refer to Chapter 2.
This appendix tells you the language equivalents of SORT-MERGE/XL
generic data types. It covers the following languages:
The following tables show the keys parameter value for each SORT-MERGE/XL data type. For
example, 0 is specified in the keys parameter array if the key is ASCII or EBCDIC byte
type.
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