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data-name-1

Data-name-1 specifies a KEY data item on which the merge will be based. Each data-name must identify a data item in a record associated with file-name-1. In MERGE, the data names following the word KEY are listed from left to right in order of decreasing significance without regard to how they are divided into KEY phrases. The left-most data-name is the major key, the next data-name is the next most significant key, and so forth. The following rules apply:


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