ILE COBOL Language Reference

COLLATING SEQUENCE Phrase

This phrase specifies the collating sequence to be used in nonnumeric comparisons for the KEY data items in this merge operation.

alphabet-name
Must be specified in the SPECIAL-NAMES paragraph ALPHABET clause. Any one of the alphabet-name clause phrases can be specified with the following results:

When the COLLATING SEQUENCE phrase is omitted, the PROGRAM COLLATING SEQUENCE clause (if specified) in the OBJECT-COMPUTER paragraph specifies the collating sequence to be used.

When both the COLLATING SEQUENCE phrase and the PROGRAM COLLATING SEQUENCE clause are omitted, the EBCDIC collating sequence is used.


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