I-O-CONTROL paragraph.

The I-O-CONTROL paragraph specifies that memory areas associated with different files are to be shared during file processing, record processing, or sort-merge processing.

Format.

          I-O-CONTROL.

               [ RECORD     ]
        [ SAME [ SORT       ] [ AREA FOR ] file-name-1 { file-name-2 } ...
               [ SORT-MERGE ]