On Mon, 28 Aug 2023 15:11:05 +0000, Sri h Kolusu wrote:
>
>EQUALS is the parm which comes into picture when your input has duplicates on 
>the key, and you want to retain the order of the duplicates.  OPTION EQUALS 
>specifies whether the original sequence of records that collate identically 
>for a sort or a merge should be preserved from input to output.
> 
Is this the behavior generally known in IT as a "stable" sort?  I find no
mention of stable sort in the DFSORT  documentation.

-- 
gil

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