Cultural environment considerations

DFSORT's collating behavior can be modified according to your cultural environment. The cultural environment is established by selecting the active locale. The active locale's collating rules affect INCLUDE and OMIT processing as follows:
  • DFSORT includes or omits records for output according to the collating rules defined in the active locale. This provides inclusion or omission for single- or multi-byte character data, based on defined collating rules which retain the cultural and local characteristics of a language.

If locale processing is to be used, the active locale will only be used to process character (CH) compare fields and character and hexadecimal constants compared to character (CH) compare fields.

For more information on locale processing, see Cultural environment considerations or LOCALE in OPTION control statement.

Parent topic: Comparisons