Use the RETURN statement only within the range of an output procedure associated with a SORT or MERGE statement. Within the OUTPUT PROCEDURE, you must specify at least one RETURN statement.
Execution of the RETURN statement makes the next record from file-name-1 available for processing by the OUTPUT PROCEDURE.
->->---RETURN file-name-1--*--------*--*-------------------*-->
*-RECORD-* *-INTO identifier-1-*
->----*----*---END imperative-statement-1-------------------->
*-AT-*
->----*------------------------------------*-*------------*--><-
*-NOT*--*-END imperative-statement-2-* *-END-RETURN-*
*AT*
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