<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"> <html lang="en-us" xml:lang="en-us"> <head> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" /> <meta name="security" content="public" /> <meta name="Robots" content="index,follow" /> <meta http-equiv="PICS-Label" content='(PICS-1.1 "http://www.icra.org/ratingsv02.html" l gen true r (cz 1 lz 1 nz 1 oz 1 vz 1) "http://www.rsac.org/ratingsv01.html" l gen true r (n 0 s 0 v 0 l 0) "http://www.classify.org/safesurf/" l gen true r (SS~~000 1))' /> <meta name="DC.Type" content="concept" /> <meta name="DC.Title" content="Specify the sort sequence (SRTSEQ) parameter" /> <meta name="abstract" content="You can specify the sort sequence for a physical or logical file with the SRTSEQ parameter." /> <meta name="description" content="You can specify the sort sequence for a physical or logical file with the SRTSEQ parameter." /> <meta name="DC.subject" content="specifying, sort sequence, SRTSEQ (Sort Sequence) parameter, SRTSEQ (Sort Sequence) parameter, Sort Sequence (SRTSEQ) parameter, parameter, SRTSEQ (Sort Sequence)" /> <meta name="keywords" content="specifying, sort sequence, SRTSEQ (Sort Sequence) parameter, SRTSEQ (Sort Sequence) parameter, Sort Sequence (SRTSEQ) parameter, parameter, SRTSEQ (Sort Sequence)" /> <meta name="DC.Relation" scheme="URI" content="rbafocrtatt.htm" /> <meta name="copyright" content="(C) Copyright IBM Corporation 1998, 2006" /> <meta name="DC.Rights.Owner" content="(C) Copyright IBM Corporation 1998, 2006" /> <meta name="DC.Format" content="XHTML" /> <meta name="DC.Identifier" content="rbafonoid26" /> <meta name="DC.Language" content="en-us" /> <!-- All rights reserved. Licensed Materials Property of IBM --> <!-- US Government Users Restricted Rights --> <!-- Use, duplication or disclosure restricted by --> <!-- GSA ADP Schedule Contract with IBM Corp. --> <link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="./ibmdita.css" /> <link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="./ic.css" /> <title>Specify the sort sequence (SRTSEQ) parameter</title> </head> <body id="rbafonoid26"><a name="rbafonoid26"><!-- --></a> <!-- Java sync-link --><script language="Javascript" src="../rzahg/synch.js" type="text/javascript"></script> <h1 class="topictitle1">Specify the sort sequence (SRTSEQ) parameter</h1> <div><p>You can specify the sort sequence for a physical or logical file with the SRTSEQ parameter.</p> <p>The values of the SRTSEQ parameter, along with the values of the CCSID and LANGID parameters, determine which sort sequence table the file uses. </p> <div class="p">You can specify: <ul><li>System-supplied sort sequence tables with unique or shared collating weights. There are sort sequence tables for each supported language.</li> <li>Any user-created sort sequence table.</li> <li>The hexadecimal value of the characters in the character set.</li> <li>The sort sequence of the current job or the one specified in the ALTSEQ parameter. The sort sequence table is stored with the file, except when the sort sequence is *HEX.</li> </ul> </div> </div> <div> <div class="familylinks"> <div class="parentlink"><strong>Parent topic:</strong> <a href="rbafocrtatt.htm" title="When you create a database file, database attributes are stored with the file and members. You specify attributes with database command parameters.">Specify database file and member attributes</a></div> </div> </div> </body> </html>