FastSort Manual

FastSort Error Messages
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Alphabetic List of Interactive Messages
Recovery. Contact your system manager or service provider to have the correct
version of FastSort or the operating system installed on your system.
Alphabetic List of Interactive Messages
This subsection describes the interactive FastSort messages in alphabetic order. This
description includes the error message text, the probable cause of the error, and the
recommended recovery.
To determine appropriate recovery action for some errors, refer to the Guardian
Procedure Errors and Messages Manual, which has information about the file-system
and NEWPROCESS error codes that accompany FastSort error codes.
Cause. The collating sequence you specified was invalid. For example, you specified
Z THRU A instead of A THRU Z.
Recovery. Correct the collating sequence so that it follows the rules under the
COLLATE Command
on page 3-6.
Cause. You specified an incorrect collating sequence. The ALSO option indicates that
two values are equal. For example, “A” ALSO “a” is a valid statement; however,
“A” THRU “B” ALSO “a” is invalid because there is nothing to compare for B.
Recovery. Correct the command so that it follows the rules under the COLLATE
Command on page 3-6.
Cause. Information only.
Cause. FastSort was unable to open or write the collate sequence to the output file
specified.
Recovery. Use the accompanying error messages to determine what is wrong and
correct the problem.
Cause. The SORTPROG process was unable to increase the maximum number of
extents for a scratch file because one of the following errors occurred:

There are no more overflow scratch volumes available to SORTPROG.
A THRU IS INCORRECT IN THE COLLATING SEQUENCE SPECIFICATION
AN ALSO MODIFIES A SPECIFIER WITH A DIFFERENT LENGTH.
ASCENDING n FOR n.
CANNOT DO THE COLLATEOUT STATEMENT.
CANNOT INCREASE THE SCRATCH FILE SIZE