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Introduction

This COBOL system provides the following methods of sorting and merging files:

Sorting Method	Description
The run-time system COBOL sort module	The default module that executes a SORT statement in your COBOL program. It can also be called directly using the CALL statement.
MFSORT utility	A utility that you can invoke from the command line, which enables you to sort and merge data files.
MFJSORT utility	An emulator of IBM’s DFSORT and ICETOOL utilities and SYNCSORT, which supports many of their major functions .

Note: MFJSORT and MFSORT are updated with new features on a regular basis but they do not offer a complete emulation of third-party sort utilities. If there are particular features that you need to use, please contact SupportLine to establish if they are available in MFJSORT or MFSORT.