>> What happens if two key values differ only in case of characters, e.g. 
>> "Wombat"  vs. "WOMBAT"?

Paul,

Since we are sorting on the key, the lower case "wombat" gets to the top.

>> If key values are longer than 8 characters, can it generate member names?

NO.  PDS member names cannot be greater than 8 characters.  Since OP hasn't 
mentioned as to what the member names would be , he needs to explain how to 
name the members.  If I was the one doing it, then I would name the members in 
7 digit Sequential order (M0000001,  M0000002...)  and then have an Index 
member (#readme)  which will have the member name and the key of the data it has

M0000001 -  Key is "wombat"
M0000002 -  Key is "ABCDEF"
…

With this approach they can look at 1 member(#readme) and find the key that 
they are interested and just look up that member.

Thanks,
Kolusu
DFSORT Development
IBM Corporation



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