Explain the difference between an internal and an external
sort, the pros and cons, internal sort syntax etc.

Answer Posted / vampire

Internal sort is manual sort use in cobol.
external sort is in jcl using inbuild program name called sort

ex

//step1 exec pgm=sort

synatx for internal sort

sort/merge sortfile on ascending/descending
key1/key2/key3,using file1/file2/input procedure is
section-1 giving file3/file4/output procedure is section-2


nobody can write syntax more than this.it is combination.

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