Parameters

 

type


   o  ASCII

      Arranges characters according to ASCII sequence. ASCII is the
      default sequence and need not be specified.

   o  EBCDIC

      Arranges characters according to EBCDIC sequence. The
      characters remain in ASCII representation; only the order
      is changed.

   o  Multinational

      Arranges characters according to Multinational sequence, which
      collates the international character set. When you use the
      Multinational sequence, characters are ordered according to
      the following rules:

      -  All diacritical (accented) forms of a character are given
         the collating value of the character (A', A", A` collate as
         A).

      -  Lowercase characters are given the collating value of their
         uppercase equivalents (a collates as A, a" collates as A").

      -  If two strings compare as equal, tie-breaking is performed.
         The strings are compared to detect differences due to
         diacritical marks, ignored characters, or characters that
         collate as equal although they are actually different. If
         the strings still compare as equal, another comparison is
         done based on the numeric codes of the characters. In this
         final comparison, lowercase characters are ordered before
         uppercase.

      Care should be taken when sorting or merging files for further
      processing using the Multinational sequence. Sequence checking
      procedures in most programming languages compare numeric
      characters. Because Multinational is based on actual graphic
      characters and not on the codes representing those characters,
      normal sequence checking does not work.
 

cs-name

   Arranges character keys according to the named sequence, which
   must be a collating sequence defined in an NCS library.

   High-performance Sort/Merge: The high-performance Sort/Merge
   utility currently supports only the ASCII, EBCDIC, and
   Multinational collating sequences.