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/FIELD

   Specification File Qualifier

   Defines the input record fields to be used for a sort or merge
   operation or in a conditional evaluation, or whose order or
   format will change in the output record. You identify each field
   by specifying a name, its position and size in the record, and
   its data type.

   You can also use /FIELD to define a constant and assign it a
   value of any valid sort/merge data-type for use in /KEY, /DATA,
   and /CONDITION statements.

   Formats

     /FIELD=(NAME=field-name,POSITION:n,)

     SIZE:n,[DIGITS:n,]data-type

     /FIELD=(NAME=field-name,VALUE:n,)

     SIZE:n,[DIGITS:n,]data-type
 


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