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Cultural environment considerations z/OS DFSORT Application Programming Guide SC23-6878-00 |
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DFSORT's collating behavior can be modified according to your cultural environment. Your cultural environment is defined to DFSORT using the X/Open** locale model. A locale is a collection of data grouped into categories that describes the information about your cultural environment. The collate category of a locale is a collection of sequence declarations that defines the relative order between collating elements (single character and multi-character collating elements). The sequence declarations define the collating rules. The cultural environment is established by selecting the active
locale. The active locale affects the behavior of locale-sensitive
functions. In particular, the active locale's collating rules affect
DFSORT's SORT, MERGE, INCLUDE, and OMIT processing as follows:
The DFSORT option LOCALE specifies whether locale processing is to be used and, if so, designates the active locale. Only one locale can be active at a time for any DFSORT application. |
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