SORTCOMPRESS

Determines whether to compress each record in a SORT operation.

When SORTCOMPRESS is set, run-length encoding of sort records results in much better performance when records contain multiple repeated characters.

Parameters

0
No compression.
Any number not equal to 0
Compression of records.

The default value is 0.

Example

SORTCOMPRESS=5
Parent topic: SORT Environment Variables
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MFJSENGINE
MFJSTATS
MFJSERET
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SORTTEMPSPACE
SORTSPACE
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