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I have not done a merge in *YEARS*, having said that I believe (even if
you concatenate) each concatenation has to be in a "higher" sequence
than the file ahead of the concatenation (all records still must be in
the right sequence) so (if) you can concatenate the records must be in
sequence. I hope I said that right and Walt can correct if I am wrong.
ie sortin01 dd (seq01-09) example for illustrative purposes only
dd (seq10-15) " "
dd (seq16-??) " "
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Not true, Ed. a MERGE will merge, and interleave where necessary, based
on the parameters provided in the control statements. I believe that the
only requirements are that the various input files be in sequence by the
same keys before starting, and that the input files be of the same
format vis-a-vis LRECL and RECFM.
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