Alt. Seq.
Optional.
Specifies the name of an Alternate Collating Table to be used when sequencing the records for retrieval on a Keyed file.
Warning
- At File Creation time, you must have operational rights to the Alternate Collating Table. Alternate Collating sequences are not valid for key fields with a data type of packed decimal as it causes zoned key fields to default to unsigned sequence.
Platform Considerations
- IBM i: This file attribute applies to IBM i databases only.
Tips & Techniques
- The Alternate Collating Table name, if specified, is not validated to determine if it actually exists.
- When attempting to use any file that has been created with an Alternate Collating Table, the library list is used to locate the Table file.