Note: MFJSORT and MFSORT are updated with new features on a regular basis but they do not offer a complete emulation of third-party sort utilities. If there are particular features that you need to use, please contact
SupportLine to establish if they are available in MFJSORT or MFSORT.
MFJSORT provides the following sort/merge operations for sequential data sets:
- Sorting data sets by ascending or descending keys
- Merging data sets by ascending or descending keys
- Copying data sets
- Selecting the records to be processed
- Rearranging the fields in the records
- Correctly processing two-digit year fields
- Transforming two-digit year fields to four-digit fields
- Summing numeric fields in records with duplicate keys
- Creating multiple output data sets
- Using an alternate collating sequence
- Executing E15 and E35 exit programs.