When would you choose to use a merge operation instead of a simple SORT operation in JCL?
- When merging multiple sorted datasets
- When sorting a single dataset with a large volume of data
- When sorting datasets with the same key
- When sorting multiple datasets with different keys
A merge operation is chosen when combining already sorted datasets, optimizing performance by avoiding a full sort
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