IBM Mainframe Forum

Hi,

can any body tell me the possible reasons of getting "out of sequence" error while merging files...
one of the reason I know is duplication, but in my file there is not duplicate data still I am getting this error and I am not able to find the reason.

Savita,

MERGE automatically checks the sequence of the input records and issues ICE068A if the records are out of sequence. If you are getting the error then your files/datasets are NOT sorted in the required order

If the files are not already in sorted order, just SORT the concatenated files instead of doing a MERGE on the individual files.

Duplication is NOT a reason for an out of sequence error.

For a MERGE, the records in each SORTINnn file must already be in the order you specify in your MERGE statement. If not, you will get the out of sequence error.