FastSort Manual

Using FastSort Commands
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ASCENDING Command
STRING
UPPER
INTEGER
REAL
UNSIGNED
SIGNED LEADING EMBEDDED or SLE
SIGNED LEADING SEPARATE or SLS
SIGNED TRAILING EMBEDDED or STE
SIGNED TRAILING SEPARATE or STS
STRING
specifies that the key field contains unsigned alphanumeric data. STRING is
the default data type.
UPPER
specifies that the key field contains unsigned alphanumeric data. FastSort
treats all lowercase ASCII characters as uppercase characters.
INTEGER
means the key field contains two’s complement signed binary data.
REAL
specifies that the key field contains data stored in Tandem floating-point
number representation. The length of the key field must be either 4 or 8 bytes,
and the key field must be word aligned.
UNSIGNED
specifies that the key field contains unsigned binary data.
SIGNED LEADING EMBEDDED | SLE
specifies that the key field contains signed ASCII numeric data with the sign
character (+ or –) stored in the high-order bit of the first byte in the field. The
key length cannot be greater than 32 bytes.
SIGNED LEADING SEPARATE | SLS
specifies that the key field contains signed ASCII numeric data with the sign
character (+ or –) stored in the first byte of the field. The key length cannot be
greater than 32 bytes.
SIGNED TRAILING EMBEDDED | STE
specifies that the key field contains signed ASCII numeric data with the sign
character (+ or –) stored in the high-order bit of the last byte of the field. The
key length cannot be greater than 32 bytes.