SORT-MODE-SIZE

The SORT-MODE-SIZE special register is the name of a binary data item that you can use to specify the length of variable-length records that occur most frequently.

Restriction: The SORT-MODE-SIZE special register is not applicable to sorting a table with the format 2 SORT statement.

The SORT-MODE-SIZE special register has the implicit definition:


01  SORT-MODE-SIZE GLOBAL PICTURE S9(5) USAGE BINARY VALUE ZERO.

When used in nested programs, this special register is implicitly defined with the global attribute in the outermost program.

SORT-MODE-SIZE is equivalent to the 'SMS=' control statement in the sort control file.

You can specify the SORT-MODE-SIZE special register in a function wherever an integer argument is allowed.