This chapter discusses using SORT-MERGE/XL in batch mode.
It shows how to build a job file, initiate it, schedule it, and
terminate it if necessary.
You can create a job file containing SORT-MERGE/XL commands
and run it in batch mode. A batch job, which can contain one or
more commands, is executed independently of your interactive session.
This frees your terminal for other processing. This technique is
known as streaming a job and is initiated with the MPE XL :STREAM command. The section below, "Initiating a Batch
Job" discusses streaming a job file.
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