Merge pull request #8672 from JamesDeFabia/15035Parrllel

HPCC-15035 Document the parallel language changes

Reviewed-By: Richard Chapman <rchapman@hpccsystems.com>

docs/ECLLanguageReference/ECLR-includer.xml

@@ -919,6 +919,9 @@
     <xi:include href="ECLLanguageReference/ECLR_mods/BltInFunc-UNICODEORDER.xml"
                 xpointer="element(/1)"
                 xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude" />
+    <xi:include href="ECLLanguageReference/ECLR_mods/BltInFunc-UNORDERED.xml"
+                xpointer="element(/1)"
+                xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude" />
 
     <xi:include href="ECLLanguageReference/ECLR_mods/BltInFunc-VARIANCE.xml"
                 xpointer="element(/1)"

docs/ECLLanguageReference/ECLR_mods/BltInFunc-AGGREGATE.xml

@@ -22,7 +22,7 @@
       <primary>FEW</primary>
     </indexterm> | MANY<indexterm>
       <primary>MANY</primary>
-    </indexterm>] )</emphasis></para>
+    </indexterm>] [, UNORDERED | ORDERED(</emphasis> <emphasis>bool </emphasis><emphasis role="bold">) ] [, STABLE | UNSTABLE ] [, PARALLEL [ (</emphasis> <emphasis>numthreads </emphasis><emphasis role="bold">) ] ] [, ALGORITHM(</emphasis> <emphasis>name </emphasis><emphasis role="bold">) ] )</emphasis></para>
 
   <para><informaltable colsep="1" frame="all" rowsep="1">
       <tgroup cols="2">
@@ -93,6 +93,51 @@
             <entry>Optional. Indicates that the expression will result in more
             than 10,000 records.</entry>
           </row>
+          <row>
+            <entry><emphasis role="bold">UNORDERED</emphasis></entry>
+
+            <entry>Optional. Specifies the output record order is not significant.</entry>
+          </row>
+          <row>
+            <entry><emphasis role="bold">ORDERED</emphasis></entry>
+
+            <entry>Specifies the significance of the output record order.</entry>
+          </row>
+          <row>
+            <entry><emphasis>bool</emphasis></entry>
+
+            <entry>When False, specifies the output record order is not significant. When True, specifies the default output record order.</entry>
+          </row>
+          <row>
+            <entry><emphasis role="bold">STABLE</emphasis></entry>
+
+            <entry>Optional. Specifies the input record order is significant.</entry>
+          </row>
+          <row>
+            <entry><emphasis role="bold">UNSTABLE</emphasis></entry>
+
+            <entry>Optional. Specifies the input record order is not significant.</entry>
+          </row>
+          <row>
+            <entry><emphasis role="bold">PARALLEL</emphasis></entry>
+
+            <entry>Optional. Try to evaluate this activity in parallel.</entry>
+          </row>
+          <row>
+            <entry><emphasis>numthreads</emphasis></entry>
+
+            <entry>Optional. Try to evaluate this activity using <emphasis>numthreads</emphasis> threads.</entry>
+          </row>
+          <row>
+            <entry><emphasis role="bold">ALGORITHM</emphasis></entry>
+
+            <entry>Optional. Override the algorithm used for this activity.</entry>
+          </row>
+          <row>
+            <entry><emphasis>name</emphasis></entry>
+
+            <entry>The algorithm to use for this activity. Must be from the list of supported algorithms for the SORT function's STABLE and UNSTABLE options.</entry>
+          </row>
 
           <row>
             <entry>Return:</entry>

docs/ECLLanguageReference/ECLR_mods/BltInFunc-APPLY.xml

@@ -15,7 +15,7 @@
     </indexterm>( </emphasis><emphasis>actionlist </emphasis><emphasis
   role="bold">) ]</emphasis><emphasis role="bold"> [ , AFTER<indexterm>
       <primary>AFTER</primary>
-    </indexterm>( </emphasis><emphasis>actionlist </emphasis><emphasis
+    </indexterm>( </emphasis><emphasis>actionlist </emphasis><emphasis role="bold">[, UNORDERED | ORDERED(</emphasis> <emphasis>bool </emphasis><emphasis role="bold">) ] [, STABLE | UNSTABLE ] [, PARALLEL [ (</emphasis> <emphasis>numthreads </emphasis><emphasis role="bold">) ] ] [, ALGORITHM(</emphasis> <emphasis>name </emphasis><emphasis role="bold">) ]</emphasis><emphasis
   role="bold">) ] )</emphasis></para>
 
   <para><informaltable colsep="1" frame="all" rowsep="1">
@@ -69,6 +69,51 @@
             processed. Not yet implemented in Thor, valid only in hthor and
             Roxie.</entry>
           </row>
+          <row>
+            <entry><emphasis role="bold">UNORDERED</emphasis></entry>
+
+            <entry>Optional. Specifies the output record order is not significant.</entry>
+          </row>
+          <row>
+            <entry><emphasis role="bold">ORDERED</emphasis></entry>
+
+            <entry>Specifies the significance of the output record order.</entry>
+          </row>
+          <row>
+            <entry><emphasis>bool</emphasis></entry>
+
+            <entry>When False, specifies the output record order is not significant. When True, specifies the default output record order.</entry>
+          </row>
+          <row>
+            <entry><emphasis role="bold">STABLE</emphasis></entry>
+
+            <entry>Optional. Specifies the input record order is significant.</entry>
+          </row>
+          <row>
+            <entry><emphasis role="bold">UNSTABLE</emphasis></entry>
+
+            <entry>Optional. Specifies the input record order is not significant.</entry>
+          </row>
+          <row>
+            <entry><emphasis role="bold">PARALLEL</emphasis></entry>
+
+            <entry>Optional. Try to evaluate this activity in parallel.</entry>
+          </row>
+          <row>
+            <entry><emphasis>numthreads</emphasis></entry>
+
+            <entry>Optional. Try to evaluate this activity using <emphasis>numthreads</emphasis> threads.</entry>
+          </row>
+          <row>
+            <entry><emphasis role="bold">ALGORITHM</emphasis></entry>
+
+            <entry>Optional. Override the algorithm used for this activity.</entry>
+          </row>
+          <row>
+            <entry><emphasis>name</emphasis></entry>
+
+            <entry>The algorithm to use for this activity. Must be from the list of supported algorithms for the SORT function's STABLE and UNSTABLE options.</entry>
+          </row>
         </tbody>
       </tgroup>
     </informaltable></para>

docs/ECLLanguageReference/ECLR_mods/BltInFunc-ASCII.xml

@@ -8,8 +8,9 @@
       <primary>ASCII</primary>
     </indexterm><indexterm>
       <primary>ASCII function</primary>
-    </indexterm>(</emphasis><emphasis>recordset</emphasis><emphasis
-  role="bold">)</emphasis></para>
+    </indexterm>(</emphasis><emphasis>recordset</emphasis>
+    <emphasis role="bold">[, UNORDERED | ORDERED(</emphasis> <emphasis>bool </emphasis><emphasis role="bold">) ] [, STABLE | UNSTABLE ] [, PARALLEL [ (</emphasis> <emphasis>numthreads </emphasis><emphasis role="bold">) ] ] [, ALGORITHM(</emphasis> <emphasis>name </emphasis><emphasis role="bold">) ]</emphasis>
+    <emphasis role="bold">)</emphasis></para>
 
   <para><informaltable colsep="1" frame="all" rowsep="1">
       <tgroup cols="2">
@@ -25,6 +26,51 @@
             dataset or a record set derived from some filter condition, or any
             expression that results in a derived record set.</entry>
           </row>
+          <row>
+            <entry><emphasis role="bold">UNORDERED</emphasis></entry>
+
+            <entry>Optional. Specifies the output record order is not significant.</entry>
+          </row>
+          <row>
+            <entry><emphasis role="bold">ORDERED</emphasis></entry>
+
+            <entry>Specifies the significance of the output record order.</entry>
+          </row>
+          <row>
+            <entry><emphasis>bool</emphasis></entry>
+
+            <entry>When False, specifies the output record order is not significant. When True, specifies the default output record order.</entry>
+          </row>
+          <row>
+            <entry><emphasis role="bold">STABLE</emphasis></entry>
+
+            <entry>Optional. Specifies the input record order is significant.</entry>
+          </row>
+          <row>
+            <entry><emphasis role="bold">UNSTABLE</emphasis></entry>
+
+            <entry>Optional. Specifies the input record order is not significant.</entry>
+          </row>
+          <row>
+            <entry><emphasis role="bold">PARALLEL</emphasis></entry>
+
+            <entry>Optional. Try to evaluate this activity in parallel.</entry>
+          </row>
+          <row>
+            <entry><emphasis>numthreads</emphasis></entry>
+
+            <entry>Optional. Try to evaluate this activity using <emphasis>numthreads</emphasis> threads.</entry>
+          </row>
+          <row>
+            <entry><emphasis role="bold">ALGORITHM</emphasis></entry>
+
+            <entry>Optional. Override the algorithm used for this activity.</entry>
+          </row>
+          <row>
+            <entry><emphasis>name</emphasis></entry>
+
+            <entry>The algorithm to use for this activity. Must be from the list of supported algorithms for the SORT function's STABLE and UNSTABLE options.</entry>
+          </row>
 
           <row>
             <entry>Return:</entry>

docs/ECLLanguageReference/ECLR_mods/BltInFunc-ASSERT.xml

@@ -17,13 +17,22 @@
   <para><emphasis role="bold">ASSERT( </emphasis><emphasis>recset, condition
   </emphasis><emphasis role="bold">[ </emphasis><emphasis>, message
   </emphasis><emphasis role="bold">] [ </emphasis>, <emphasis role="bold">FAIL
-  ] [ </emphasis>, <emphasis role="bold">CONST ])</emphasis><emphasis
-  role="bold"><indexterm>
+  ] [ </emphasis>, <emphasis role="bold">CONST ] [, UNORDERED |
+  ORDERED(</emphasis> <emphasis>bool </emphasis><emphasis role="bold">) ] [,
+  STABLE | UNSTABLE ] [, PARALLEL [ (</emphasis> <emphasis>numthreads
+  </emphasis><emphasis role="bold">) ] ] [, ALGORITHM(</emphasis>
+  <emphasis>name </emphasis><emphasis role="bold">) ]</emphasis><emphasis
+  role="bold"> )</emphasis><indexterm>
       <primary>ASSERT function</primary>
-    </indexterm></emphasis></para>
+    </indexterm></para>
 
   <para><emphasis role="bold">ASSERT( </emphasis><emphasis>recset,
-  assertlist</emphasis><emphasis role="bold"> )</emphasis></para>
+  assertlist</emphasis><emphasis role="bold"> [, UNORDERED |
+  ORDERED(</emphasis> <emphasis>bool </emphasis><emphasis role="bold">) ] [,
+  STABLE | UNSTABLE ] [, PARALLEL [ (</emphasis> <emphasis>numthreads
+  </emphasis><emphasis role="bold">) ] ] [, ALGORITHM(</emphasis>
+  <emphasis>name </emphasis><emphasis role="bold">) ]</emphasis><emphasis
+  role="bold"> )</emphasis></para>
 
   <para><informaltable colsep="1" frame="all" rowsep="1">
       <tgroup cols="2">
@@ -69,6 +78,71 @@
           </row>
 
           <row>
+            <entry><emphasis role="bold">UNORDERED</emphasis></entry>
+
+            <entry>Optional. Specifies the output record order is not
+            significant.</entry>
+          </row>
+
+          <row>
+            <entry><emphasis role="bold">ORDERED</emphasis></entry>
+
+            <entry>Specifies the significance of the output record
+            order.</entry>
+          </row>
+
+          <row>
+            <entry><emphasis>bool</emphasis></entry>
+
+            <entry>When False, specifies the output record order is not
+            significant. When True, specifies the default output record
+            order.</entry>
+          </row>
+
+          <row>
+            <entry><emphasis role="bold">STABLE</emphasis></entry>
+
+            <entry>Optional. Specifies the input record order is
+            significant.</entry>
+          </row>
+
+          <row>
+            <entry><emphasis role="bold">UNSTABLE</emphasis></entry>
+
+            <entry>Optional. Specifies the input record order is not
+            significant.</entry>
+          </row>
+
+          <row>
+            <entry><emphasis role="bold">PARALLEL</emphasis></entry>
+
+            <entry>Optional. Try to evaluate this activity in
+            parallel.</entry>
+          </row>
+
+          <row>
+            <entry><emphasis>numthreads</emphasis></entry>
+
+            <entry>Optional. Try to evaluate this activity using
+            <emphasis>numthreads</emphasis> threads.</entry>
+          </row>
+
+          <row>
+            <entry><emphasis role="bold">ALGORITHM</emphasis></entry>
+
+            <entry>Optional. Override the algorithm used for this
+            activity.</entry>
+          </row>
+
+          <row>
+            <entry><emphasis>name</emphasis></entry>
+
+            <entry>The algorithm to use for this activity. Must be from the
+            list of supported algorithms for the SORT function's STABLE and
+            UNSTABLE options.</entry>
+          </row>
+
+          <row>
             <entry><emphasis>assertlist</emphasis></entry>
 
             <entry>A comma-delimited list of ASSERTs of the first form, used

docs/ECLLanguageReference/ECLR_mods/BltInFunc-AVE.xml

@@ -12,7 +12,7 @@
   role="bold">[ </emphasis><emphasis>, expression </emphasis><emphasis
   role="bold">] [, KEYED<indexterm>
       <primary>KEYED</primary>
-    </indexterm> ])</emphasis><emphasis role="bold"></emphasis></para>
+    </indexterm> ] [, UNORDERED | ORDERED(</emphasis> <emphasis>bool </emphasis><emphasis role="bold">) ] [, STABLE | UNSTABLE ] [, PARALLEL [ (</emphasis> <emphasis>numthreads </emphasis><emphasis role="bold">) ] ] [, ALGORITHM(</emphasis> <emphasis>name </emphasis><emphasis role="bold">) ] )</emphasis></para>
 
   <para><emphasis
   role="bold">AVE(</emphasis><emphasis>valuelist</emphasis><emphasis
@@ -57,6 +57,51 @@
             operation, which allows the optimizer to generate optimal code for
             the operation.</entry>
           </row>
+          <row>
+            <entry><emphasis role="bold">UNORDERED</emphasis></entry>
+
+            <entry>Optional. Specifies the output record order is not significant.</entry>
+          </row>
+          <row>
+            <entry><emphasis role="bold">ORDERED</emphasis></entry>
+
+            <entry>Specifies the significance of the output record order.</entry>
+          </row>
+          <row>
+            <entry><emphasis>bool</emphasis></entry>
+
+            <entry>When False, specifies the output record order is not significant. When True, specifies the default output record order.</entry>
+          </row>
+          <row>
+            <entry><emphasis role="bold">STABLE</emphasis></entry>
+
+            <entry>Optional. Specifies the input record order is significant.</entry>
+          </row>
+          <row>
+            <entry><emphasis role="bold">UNSTABLE</emphasis></entry>
+
+            <entry>Optional. Specifies the input record order is not significant.</entry>
+          </row>
+          <row>
+            <entry><emphasis role="bold">PARALLEL</emphasis></entry>
+
+            <entry>Optional. Try to evaluate this activity in parallel.</entry>
+          </row>
+          <row>
+            <entry><emphasis>numthreads</emphasis></entry>
+
+            <entry>Optional. Try to evaluate this activity using <emphasis>numthreads</emphasis> threads.</entry>
+          </row>
+          <row>
+            <entry><emphasis role="bold">ALGORITHM</emphasis></entry>
+
+            <entry>Optional. Override the algorithm used for this activity.</entry>
+          </row>
+          <row>
+            <entry><emphasis>name</emphasis></entry>
+
+            <entry>The algorithm to use for this activity. Must be from the list of supported algorithms for the SORT function's STABLE and UNSTABLE options.</entry>
+          </row>
 
           <row>
             <entry><emphasis>valuelist</emphasis></entry>

docs/ECLLanguageReference/ECLR_mods/BltInFunc-BUILD.xml

@@ -204,7 +204,7 @@
     ] ] <emphasis role="bold">[, MAXLENGTH<indexterm>
         <primary>MAXLENGTH</primary>
       </indexterm>[(</emphasis><emphasis>value</emphasis><emphasis
-    role="bold">)] ] ]</emphasis></emphasis></emphasis></para>
+    role="bold">)] ] ]</emphasis></emphasis></emphasis><emphasis role="bold">[, UNORDERED | ORDERED(</emphasis> <emphasis>bool </emphasis><emphasis role="bold">) ] [, STABLE | UNSTABLE ] [, PARALLEL [ (</emphasis> <emphasis>numthreads </emphasis><emphasis role="bold">) ] ] [, ALGORITHM(</emphasis> <emphasis>name </emphasis><emphasis role="bold">) ]</emphasis></para>
 
     <para><informaltable colsep="1" frame="all" rowsep="1">
         <tgroup cols="2">
@@ -480,6 +480,51 @@
               structure. Variable-length records that do not specify MAXLENGTH
               may be slightly inefficient</entry>
             </row>
+          <row>
+            <entry><emphasis role="bold">UNORDERED</emphasis></entry>
+
+            <entry>Optional. Specifies the output record order is not significant.</entry>
+          </row>
+          <row>
+            <entry><emphasis role="bold">ORDERED</emphasis></entry>
+
+            <entry>Specifies the significance of the output record order.</entry>
+          </row>
+          <row>
+            <entry><emphasis>bool</emphasis></entry>
+
+            <entry>When False, specifies the output record order is not significant. When True, specifies the default output record order.</entry>
+          </row>
+          <row>
+            <entry><emphasis role="bold">STABLE</emphasis></entry>
+
+            <entry>Optional. Specifies the input record order is significant.</entry>
+          </row>
+          <row>
+            <entry><emphasis role="bold">UNSTABLE</emphasis></entry>
+
+            <entry>Optional. Specifies the input record order is not significant.</entry>
+          </row>
+          <row>
+            <entry><emphasis role="bold">PARALLEL</emphasis></entry>
+
+            <entry>Optional. Try to evaluate this activity in parallel.</entry>
+          </row>
+          <row>
+            <entry><emphasis>numthreads</emphasis></entry>
+
+            <entry>Optional. Try to evaluate this activity using <emphasis>numthreads</emphasis> threads.</entry>
+          </row>
+          <row>
+            <entry><emphasis role="bold">ALGORITHM</emphasis></entry>
+
+            <entry>Optional. Override the algorithm used for this activity.</entry>
+          </row>
+          <row>
+            <entry><emphasis>name</emphasis></entry>
+
+            <entry>The algorithm to use for this activity. Must be from the list of supported algorithms for the SORT function's STABLE and UNSTABLE options.</entry>
+          </row>
           </tbody>
         </tgroup>
       </informaltable></para>

docs/ECLLanguageReference/ECLR_mods/BltInFunc-CATCH.xml

@@ -8,7 +8,7 @@
       <primary>CATCH</primary>
     </indexterm><indexterm>
       <primary>CATCH Function</primary>
-    </indexterm>(</emphasis> <emphasis>recset, action</emphasis><emphasis
+    </indexterm>(</emphasis> <emphasis>recset, action</emphasis> <emphasis role="bold">[, UNORDERED | ORDERED(</emphasis> <emphasis>bool </emphasis><emphasis role="bold">) ] [, STABLE | UNSTABLE ] [, PARALLEL [ (</emphasis> <emphasis>numthreads </emphasis><emphasis role="bold">) ] ] [, ALGORITHM(</emphasis> <emphasis>name </emphasis><emphasis role="bold">) ]</emphasis><emphasis
   role="bold"> );</emphasis></para>
 
   <para><informaltable colsep="1" frame="all" rowsep="1">
@@ -36,6 +36,51 @@
 
             <entry>One of the three valid actions below.</entry>
           </row>
+          <row>
+            <entry><emphasis role="bold">UNORDERED</emphasis></entry>
+
+            <entry>Optional. Specifies the output record order is not significant.</entry>
+          </row>
+          <row>
+            <entry><emphasis role="bold">ORDERED</emphasis></entry>
+
+            <entry>Specifies the significance of the output record order.</entry>
+          </row>
+          <row>
+            <entry><emphasis>bool</emphasis></entry>
+
+            <entry>When False, specifies the output record order is not significant. When True, specifies the default output record order.</entry>
+          </row>
+          <row>
+            <entry><emphasis role="bold">STABLE</emphasis></entry>
+
+            <entry>Optional. Specifies the input record order is significant.</entry>
+          </row>
+          <row>
+            <entry><emphasis role="bold">UNSTABLE</emphasis></entry>
+
+            <entry>Optional. Specifies the input record order is not significant.</entry>
+          </row>
+          <row>
+            <entry><emphasis role="bold">PARALLEL</emphasis></entry>
+
+            <entry>Optional. Try to evaluate this activity in parallel.</entry>
+          </row>
+          <row>
+            <entry><emphasis>numthreads</emphasis></entry>
+
+            <entry>Optional. Try to evaluate this activity using <emphasis>numthreads</emphasis> threads.</entry>
+          </row>
+          <row>
+            <entry><emphasis role="bold">ALGORITHM</emphasis></entry>
+
+            <entry>Optional. Override the algorithm used for this activity.</entry>
+          </row>
+          <row>
+            <entry><emphasis>name</emphasis></entry>
+
+            <entry>The algorithm to use for this activity. Must be from the list of supported algorithms for the SORT function's STABLE and UNSTABLE options.</entry>
+          </row>
 
           <row>
             <entry>Return:</entry>

docs/ECLLanguageReference/ECLR_mods/BltInFunc-CHOOSEN.xml

@@ -12,7 +12,7 @@
   role="bold">[</emphasis><emphasis>, startpos </emphasis><emphasis
   role="bold">] [, FEW<indexterm>
       <primary>FEW</primary>
-    </indexterm>])</emphasis></para>
+    </indexterm>] [, UNORDERED | ORDERED(</emphasis> <emphasis>bool </emphasis><emphasis role="bold">) ] [, STABLE | UNSTABLE ] [, PARALLEL [ (</emphasis> <emphasis>numthreads </emphasis><emphasis role="bold">) ] ] [, ALGORITHM(</emphasis> <emphasis>name </emphasis><emphasis role="bold">) ] )</emphasis></para>
 
   <para><informaltable colsep="1" frame="all" rowsep="1">
       <tgroup cols="2">
@@ -53,6 +53,51 @@
             operation if n is a variable number (an attribute or passed
             parameter) and the input recordset comes from a SORT.</entry>
           </row>
+          <row>
+            <entry><emphasis role="bold">UNORDERED</emphasis></entry>
+
+            <entry>Optional. Specifies the output record order is not significant.</entry>
+          </row>
+          <row>
+            <entry><emphasis role="bold">ORDERED</emphasis></entry>
+
+            <entry>Specifies the significance of the output record order.</entry>
+          </row>
+          <row>
+            <entry><emphasis>bool</emphasis></entry>
+
+            <entry>When False, specifies the output record order is not significant. When True, specifies the default output record order.</entry>
+          </row>
+          <row>
+            <entry><emphasis role="bold">STABLE</emphasis></entry>
+
+            <entry>Optional. Specifies the input record order is significant.</entry>
+          </row>
+          <row>
+            <entry><emphasis role="bold">UNSTABLE</emphasis></entry>
+
+            <entry>Optional. Specifies the input record order is not significant.</entry>
+          </row>
+          <row>
+            <entry><emphasis role="bold">PARALLEL</emphasis></entry>
+
+            <entry>Optional. Try to evaluate this activity in parallel.</entry>
+          </row>
+          <row>
+            <entry><emphasis>numthreads</emphasis></entry>
+
+            <entry>Optional. Try to evaluate this activity using <emphasis>numthreads</emphasis> threads.</entry>
+          </row>
+          <row>
+            <entry><emphasis role="bold">ALGORITHM</emphasis></entry>
+
+            <entry>Optional. Override the algorithm used for this activity.</entry>
+          </row>
+          <row>
+            <entry><emphasis>name</emphasis></entry>
+
+            <entry>The algorithm to use for this activity. Must be from the list of supported algorithms for the SORT function's STABLE and UNSTABLE options.</entry>
+          </row>
 
           <row>
             <entry>Return:</entry>

docs/ECLLanguageReference/ECLR_mods/BltInFunc-CHOOSETS.xml

@@ -20,7 +20,7 @@
   role="bold">|</emphasis><emphasis> </emphasis><emphasis
   role="bold">ENTH<indexterm>
       <primary>ENTH</primary>
-    </indexterm></emphasis><emphasis> </emphasis><emphasis role="bold">]
+    </indexterm></emphasis> <emphasis role="bold">[, UNORDERED | ORDERED(</emphasis> <emphasis>bool </emphasis><emphasis role="bold">) ] [, STABLE | UNSTABLE ] [, PARALLEL [ (</emphasis> <emphasis>numthreads </emphasis><emphasis role="bold">) ] ] [, ALGORITHM(</emphasis> <emphasis>name </emphasis><emphasis role="bold">) ] ]
   )</emphasis></para>
 
   <para><informaltable colsep="1" frame="all" rowsep="1">
@@ -88,6 +88,51 @@
             the condition instead of the first n. This option is implicitly
             EXCLUSIVE.</entry>
           </row>
+          <row>
+            <entry><emphasis role="bold">UNORDERED</emphasis></entry>
+
+            <entry>Optional. Specifies the output record order is not significant.</entry>
+          </row>
+          <row>
+            <entry><emphasis role="bold">ORDERED</emphasis></entry>
+
+            <entry>Specifies the significance of the output record order.</entry>
+          </row>
+          <row>
+            <entry><emphasis>bool</emphasis></entry>
+
+            <entry>When False, specifies the output record order is not significant. When True, specifies the default output record order.</entry>
+          </row>
+          <row>
+            <entry><emphasis role="bold">STABLE</emphasis></entry>
+
+            <entry>Optional. Specifies the input record order is significant.</entry>
+          </row>
+          <row>
+            <entry><emphasis role="bold">UNSTABLE</emphasis></entry>
+
+            <entry>Optional. Specifies the input record order is not significant.</entry>
+          </row>
+          <row>
+            <entry><emphasis role="bold">PARALLEL</emphasis></entry>
+
+            <entry>Optional. Try to evaluate this activity in parallel.</entry>
+          </row>
+          <row>
+            <entry><emphasis>numthreads</emphasis></entry>
+
+            <entry>Optional. Try to evaluate this activity using <emphasis>numthreads</emphasis> threads.</entry>
+          </row>
+          <row>
+            <entry><emphasis role="bold">ALGORITHM</emphasis></entry>
+
+            <entry>Optional. Override the algorithm used for this activity.</entry>
+          </row>
+          <row>
+            <entry><emphasis>name</emphasis></entry>
+
+            <entry>The algorithm to use for this activity. Must be from the list of supported algorithms for the SORT function's STABLE and UNSTABLE options.</entry>
+          </row>
 
           <row>
             <entry>Return:</entry>

docs/ECLLanguageReference/ECLR_mods/BltInFunc-COMBINE.xml

@@ -19,7 +19,7 @@
     </indexterm> </emphasis>,<emphasis> transform </emphasis><emphasis
   role="bold">[,LOCAL]<indexterm>
       <primary>LOCAL</primary>
-    </indexterm> </emphasis><emphasis role="bold">)</emphasis></para>
+    </indexterm> </emphasis> <emphasis role="bold">[, UNORDERED | ORDERED(</emphasis> <emphasis>bool </emphasis><emphasis role="bold">) ] [, STABLE | UNSTABLE ] [, PARALLEL [ (</emphasis> <emphasis>numthreads </emphasis><emphasis role="bold">) ] ] [, ALGORITHM(</emphasis> <emphasis>name </emphasis><emphasis role="bold">) ] )</emphasis></para>
 
   <para><informaltable colsep="1" frame="all" rowsep="1">
       <tgroup cols="2">
@@ -62,6 +62,51 @@
             <entry>Specifies the <emphasis>rightrecset</emphasis> has been
             GROUPed. If this is not the case, an error occurs.</entry>
           </row>
+          <row>
+            <entry><emphasis role="bold">UNORDERED</emphasis></entry>
+
+            <entry>Optional. Specifies the output record order is not significant.</entry>
+          </row>
+          <row>
+            <entry><emphasis role="bold">ORDERED</emphasis></entry>
+
+            <entry>Specifies the significance of the output record order.</entry>
+          </row>
+          <row>
+            <entry><emphasis>bool</emphasis></entry>
+
+            <entry>When False, specifies the output record order is not significant. When True, specifies the default output record order.</entry>
+          </row>
+          <row>
+            <entry><emphasis role="bold">STABLE</emphasis></entry>
+
+            <entry>Optional. Specifies the input record order is significant.</entry>
+          </row>
+          <row>
+            <entry><emphasis role="bold">UNSTABLE</emphasis></entry>
+
+            <entry>Optional. Specifies the input record order is not significant.</entry>
+          </row>
+          <row>
+            <entry><emphasis role="bold">PARALLEL</emphasis></entry>
+
+            <entry>Optional. Try to evaluate this activity in parallel.</entry>
+          </row>
+          <row>
+            <entry><emphasis>numthreads</emphasis></entry>
+
+            <entry>Optional. Try to evaluate this activity using <emphasis>numthreads</emphasis> threads.</entry>
+          </row>
+          <row>
+            <entry><emphasis role="bold">ALGORITHM</emphasis></entry>
+
+            <entry>Optional. Override the algorithm used for this activity.</entry>
+          </row>
+          <row>
+            <entry><emphasis>name</emphasis></entry>
+
+            <entry>The algorithm to use for this activity. Must be from the list of supported algorithms for the SORT function's STABLE and UNSTABLE options.</entry>
+          </row>
 
           <row>
             <entry>Return:</entry>

docs/ECLLanguageReference/ECLR_mods/BltInFunc-CORRELATION.xml

@@ -12,7 +12,7 @@
   </emphasis><emphasis role="bold">[ </emphasis><emphasis>,
   expresssion</emphasis><emphasis role="bold">] [, KEYED<indexterm>
       <primary>KEYED</primary>
-    </indexterm> ] )</emphasis></para>
+    </indexterm> ] </emphasis><emphasis role="bold">[, UNORDERED | ORDERED(</emphasis> <emphasis>bool </emphasis><emphasis role="bold">) ] [, STABLE | UNSTABLE ] [, PARALLEL [ (</emphasis> <emphasis>numthreads </emphasis><emphasis role="bold">) ] ] [, ALGORITHM(</emphasis> <emphasis>name </emphasis><emphasis role="bold">) ] )</emphasis></para>
 
   <para><informaltable colsep="1" frame="all" rowsep="1">
       <tgroup cols="2">
@@ -60,6 +60,51 @@
             operation, which allows the optimizer to generate optimal code for
             the operation.</entry>
           </row>
+          <row>
+            <entry><emphasis role="bold">UNORDERED</emphasis></entry>
+
+            <entry>Optional. Specifies the output record order is not significant.</entry>
+          </row>
+          <row>
+            <entry><emphasis role="bold">ORDERED</emphasis></entry>
+
+            <entry>Specifies the significance of the output record order.</entry>
+          </row>
+          <row>
+            <entry><emphasis>bool</emphasis></entry>
+
+            <entry>When False, specifies the output record order is not significant. When True, specifies the default output record order.</entry>
+          </row>
+          <row>
+            <entry><emphasis role="bold">STABLE</emphasis></entry>
+
+            <entry>Optional. Specifies the input record order is significant.</entry>
+          </row>
+          <row>
+            <entry><emphasis role="bold">UNSTABLE</emphasis></entry>
+
+            <entry>Optional. Specifies the input record order is not significant.</entry>
+          </row>
+          <row>
+            <entry><emphasis role="bold">PARALLEL</emphasis></entry>
+
+            <entry>Optional. Try to evaluate this activity in parallel.</entry>
+          </row>
+          <row>
+            <entry><emphasis>numthreads</emphasis></entry>
+
+            <entry>Optional. Try to evaluate this activity using <emphasis>numthreads</emphasis> threads.</entry>
+          </row>
+          <row>
+            <entry><emphasis role="bold">ALGORITHM</emphasis></entry>
+
+            <entry>Optional. Override the algorithm used for this activity.</entry>
+          </row>
+          <row>
+            <entry><emphasis>name</emphasis></entry>
+
+            <entry>The algorithm to use for this activity. Must be from the list of supported algorithms for the SORT function's STABLE and UNSTABLE options.</entry>
+          </row>
 
           <row>
             <entry>Return:</entry>

docs/ECLLanguageReference/ECLR_mods/BltInFunc-COUNT.xml

@@ -10,7 +10,7 @@
   role="bold">[ </emphasis><emphasis>, expression </emphasis><emphasis
   role="bold">] [, KEYED<indexterm>
       <primary>KEYED</primary>
-    </indexterm> ])</emphasis><emphasis role="bold"></emphasis></para>
+    </indexterm> ] </emphasis><emphasis role="bold">[, UNORDERED | ORDERED(</emphasis> <emphasis>bool </emphasis><emphasis role="bold">) ] [, STABLE | UNSTABLE ] [, PARALLEL [ (</emphasis> <emphasis>numthreads </emphasis><emphasis role="bold">) ] ] [, ALGORITHM(</emphasis> <emphasis>name </emphasis><emphasis role="bold">) ] )</emphasis></para>
 
   <para><emphasis role="bold">COUNT<indexterm>
       <primary>COUNT</primary>
@@ -51,6 +51,51 @@
             operation, which allows the optimizer to generate optimal code for
             the operation.</entry>
           </row>
+          <row>
+            <entry><emphasis role="bold">UNORDERED</emphasis></entry>
+
+            <entry>Optional. Specifies the output record order is not significant.</entry>
+          </row>
+          <row>
+            <entry><emphasis role="bold">ORDERED</emphasis></entry>
+
+            <entry>Specifies the significance of the output record order.</entry>
+          </row>
+          <row>
+            <entry><emphasis>bool</emphasis></entry>
+
+            <entry>When False, specifies the output record order is not significant. When True, specifies the default output record order.</entry>
+          </row>
+          <row>
+            <entry><emphasis role="bold">STABLE</emphasis></entry>
+
+            <entry>Optional. Specifies the input record order is significant.</entry>
+          </row>
+          <row>
+            <entry><emphasis role="bold">UNSTABLE</emphasis></entry>
+
+            <entry>Optional. Specifies the input record order is not significant.</entry>
+          </row>
+          <row>
+            <entry><emphasis role="bold">PARALLEL</emphasis></entry>
+
+            <entry>Optional. Try to evaluate this activity in parallel.</entry>
+          </row>
+          <row>
+            <entry><emphasis>numthreads</emphasis></entry>
+
+            <entry>Optional. Try to evaluate this activity using <emphasis>numthreads</emphasis> threads.</entry>
+          </row>
+          <row>
+            <entry><emphasis role="bold">ALGORITHM</emphasis></entry>
+
+            <entry>Optional. Override the algorithm used for this activity.</entry>
+          </row>
+          <row>
+            <entry><emphasis>name</emphasis></entry>
+
+            <entry>The algorithm to use for this activity. Must be from the list of supported algorithms for the SORT function's STABLE and UNSTABLE options.</entry>
+          </row>
 
           <row>
             <entry><emphasis>valuelist</emphasis></entry>

docs/ECLLanguageReference/ECLR_mods/BltInFunc-COVARIANCE.xml

@@ -12,7 +12,7 @@
   </emphasis><emphasis role="bold">[ </emphasis><emphasis>,
   expresssion</emphasis><emphasis role="bold">] [, KEYED<indexterm>
       <primary>KEYED</primary>
-    </indexterm> ])</emphasis></para>
+    </indexterm> ] </emphasis><emphasis role="bold">[, UNORDERED | ORDERED(</emphasis> <emphasis>bool </emphasis><emphasis role="bold">) ] [, STABLE | UNSTABLE ] [, PARALLEL [ (</emphasis> <emphasis>numthreads </emphasis><emphasis role="bold">) ] ] [, ALGORITHM(</emphasis> <emphasis>name </emphasis><emphasis role="bold">) ] )</emphasis></para>
 
   <para><informaltable colsep="1" frame="all" rowsep="1">
       <tgroup cols="2">
@@ -59,6 +59,51 @@
             operation, which allows the optimizer to generate optimal code for
             the operation.</entry>
           </row>
+          <row>
+            <entry><emphasis role="bold">UNORDERED</emphasis></entry>
+
+            <entry>Optional. Specifies the output record order is not significant.</entry>
+          </row>
+          <row>
+            <entry><emphasis role="bold">ORDERED</emphasis></entry>
+
+            <entry>Specifies the significance of the output record order.</entry>
+          </row>
+          <row>
+            <entry><emphasis>bool</emphasis></entry>
+
+            <entry>When False, specifies the output record order is not significant. When True, specifies the default output record order.</entry>
+          </row>
+          <row>
+            <entry><emphasis role="bold">STABLE</emphasis></entry>
+
+            <entry>Optional. Specifies the input record order is significant.</entry>
+          </row>
+          <row>
+            <entry><emphasis role="bold">UNSTABLE</emphasis></entry>
+
+            <entry>Optional. Specifies the input record order is not significant.</entry>
+          </row>
+          <row>
+            <entry><emphasis role="bold">PARALLEL</emphasis></entry>
+
+            <entry>Optional. Try to evaluate this activity in parallel.</entry>
+          </row>
+          <row>
+            <entry><emphasis>numthreads</emphasis></entry>
+
+            <entry>Optional. Try to evaluate this activity using <emphasis>numthreads</emphasis> threads.</entry>
+          </row>
+          <row>
+            <entry><emphasis role="bold">ALGORITHM</emphasis></entry>
+
+            <entry>Optional. Override the algorithm used for this activity.</entry>
+          </row>
+          <row>
+            <entry><emphasis>name</emphasis></entry>
+
+            <entry>The algorithm to use for this activity. Must be from the list of supported algorithms for the SORT function's STABLE and UNSTABLE options.</entry>
+          </row>
 
           <row>
             <entry>Return:</entry>

docs/ECLLanguageReference/ECLR_mods/BltInFunc-DEDUP.xml

@@ -20,7 +20,7 @@
   [</emphasis>,<emphasis> keeper </emphasis><emphasis role="bold">] ]
   [</emphasis><emphasis>, </emphasis><emphasis role="bold">LOCAL<indexterm>
       <primary>LOCAL</primary>
-    </indexterm>])</emphasis></para>
+    </indexterm>]</emphasis> <emphasis role="bold">[, UNORDERED | ORDERED(</emphasis> <emphasis>bool </emphasis><emphasis role="bold">) ] [, STABLE | UNSTABLE ] [, PARALLEL [ (</emphasis> <emphasis>numthreads </emphasis><emphasis role="bold">) ] ] [, ALGORITHM(</emphasis> <emphasis>name </emphasis><emphasis role="bold">) ] )</emphasis></para>
 
   <para><informaltable colsep="1" frame="all" rowsep="1">
       <tgroup cols="2">
@@ -96,6 +96,51 @@
             with all other nodes to acquire data; the operation maintains the
             distribution of any previous DISTRIBUTE.</entry>
           </row>
+          <row>
+            <entry><emphasis role="bold">UNORDERED</emphasis></entry>
+
+            <entry>Optional. Specifies the output record order is not significant.</entry>
+          </row>
+          <row>
+            <entry><emphasis role="bold">ORDERED</emphasis></entry>
+
+            <entry>Specifies the significance of the output record order.</entry>
+          </row>
+          <row>
+            <entry><emphasis>bool</emphasis></entry>
+
+            <entry>When False, specifies the output record order is not significant. When True, specifies the default output record order.</entry>
+          </row>
+          <row>
+            <entry><emphasis role="bold">STABLE</emphasis></entry>
+
+            <entry>Optional. Specifies the input record order is significant.</entry>
+          </row>
+          <row>
+            <entry><emphasis role="bold">UNSTABLE</emphasis></entry>
+
+            <entry>Optional. Specifies the input record order is not significant.</entry>
+          </row>
+          <row>
+            <entry><emphasis role="bold">PARALLEL</emphasis></entry>
+
+            <entry>Optional. Try to evaluate this activity in parallel.</entry>
+          </row>
+          <row>
+            <entry><emphasis>numthreads</emphasis></entry>
+
+            <entry>Optional. Try to evaluate this activity using <emphasis>numthreads</emphasis> threads.</entry>
+          </row>
+          <row>
+            <entry><emphasis role="bold">ALGORITHM</emphasis></entry>
+
+            <entry>Optional. Override the algorithm used for this activity.</entry>
+          </row>
+          <row>
+            <entry><emphasis>name</emphasis></entry>
+
+            <entry>The algorithm to use for this activity. Must be from the list of supported algorithms for the SORT function's STABLE and UNSTABLE options.</entry>
+          </row>
 
           <row>
             <entry>Return:</entry>

docs/ECLLanguageReference/ECLR_mods/BltInFunc-DENORMALIZE.xml

@@ -13,14 +13,13 @@
       <primary>LOCAL</primary>
     </indexterm>] [,NOSORT<indexterm>
       <primary>NOSORT</primary>
-    </indexterm>])</emphasis><emphasis role="bold"></emphasis></para>
+    </indexterm>] </emphasis><emphasis role="bold">[, UNORDERED | ORDERED(</emphasis> <emphasis>bool </emphasis><emphasis role="bold">) ] [, STABLE | UNSTABLE ] [, PARALLEL [ (</emphasis> <emphasis>numthreads </emphasis><emphasis role="bold">) ] ] [, ALGORITHM(</emphasis> <emphasis>name </emphasis><emphasis role="bold">) ] )</emphasis></para>
 
   <para><emphasis role="bold">DENORMALIZE(</emphasis><emphasis>parentrecset,
   childrecset, condition, </emphasis><emphasis
   role="bold">GROUP</emphasis><emphasis><indexterm>
       <primary>GROUP</primary>
-    </indexterm>, transform </emphasis><emphasis role="bold"> [,LOCAL]
-  [,NOSORT])</emphasis></para>
+    </indexterm>, transform </emphasis><emphasis role="bold"> [,LOCAL] [,NOSORT] </emphasis><emphasis role="bold">[, UNORDERED | ORDERED(</emphasis> <emphasis>bool </emphasis><emphasis role="bold">) ] [, STABLE | UNSTABLE ] [, PARALLEL [ (</emphasis> <emphasis>numthreads </emphasis><emphasis role="bold">) ] ] [, ALGORITHM(</emphasis> <emphasis>name </emphasis><emphasis role="bold">) ] )</emphasis></para>
 
   <para><informaltable colsep="1" frame="all" rowsep="1">
       <tgroup cols="2">
@@ -84,6 +83,51 @@
             records are passed as a dataset parameter to the
             transform.</entry>
           </row>
+          <row>
+            <entry><emphasis role="bold">UNORDERED</emphasis></entry>
+
+            <entry>Optional. Specifies the output record order is not significant.</entry>
+          </row>
+          <row>
+            <entry><emphasis role="bold">ORDERED</emphasis></entry>
+
+            <entry>Specifies the significance of the output record order.</entry>
+          </row>
+          <row>
+            <entry><emphasis>bool</emphasis></entry>
+
+            <entry>When False, specifies the output record order is not significant. When True, specifies the default output record order.</entry>
+          </row>
+          <row>
+            <entry><emphasis role="bold">STABLE</emphasis></entry>
+
+            <entry>Optional. Specifies the input record order is significant.</entry>
+          </row>
+          <row>
+            <entry><emphasis role="bold">UNSTABLE</emphasis></entry>
+
+            <entry>Optional. Specifies the input record order is not significant.</entry>
+          </row>
+          <row>
+            <entry><emphasis role="bold">PARALLEL</emphasis></entry>
+
+            <entry>Optional. Try to evaluate this activity in parallel.</entry>
+          </row>
+          <row>
+            <entry><emphasis>numthreads</emphasis></entry>
+
+            <entry>Optional. Try to evaluate this activity using <emphasis>numthreads</emphasis> threads.</entry>
+          </row>
+          <row>
+            <entry><emphasis role="bold">ALGORITHM</emphasis></entry>
+
+            <entry>Optional. Override the algorithm used for this activity.</entry>
+          </row>
+          <row>
+            <entry><emphasis>name</emphasis></entry>
+
+            <entry>The algorithm to use for this activity. Must be from the list of supported algorithms for the SORT function's STABLE and UNSTABLE options.</entry>
+          </row>
 
           <row>
             <entry>Return:</entry>

docs/ECLLanguageReference/ECLR_mods/BltInFunc-DISTRIBUTE.xml

@@ -8,25 +8,22 @@
 
   <para><emphasis role="bold">DISTRIBUTE<indexterm>
       <primary>DISTRIBUTE function</primary>
-    </indexterm>(</emphasis><emphasis>recordset </emphasis><emphasis
-  role="bold">)</emphasis><emphasis role="bold"></emphasis></para>
+    </indexterm>(</emphasis><emphasis>recordset </emphasis> <emphasis role="bold">[, UNORDERED | ORDERED(</emphasis> <emphasis>bool </emphasis><emphasis role="bold">) ] [, STABLE | UNSTABLE ] [, PARALLEL [ (</emphasis> <emphasis>numthreads </emphasis><emphasis role="bold">) ] ] [, ALGORITHM(</emphasis> <emphasis>name </emphasis><emphasis role="bold">) ] )</emphasis></para>
 
   <para><emphasis role="bold">DISTRIBUTE(</emphasis><emphasis>recordset,
   expression </emphasis><emphasis role="bold"> [<emphasis>,</emphasis>
-  MERGE(</emphasis><emphasis> sorts </emphasis><emphasis role="bold">) ]
-  )</emphasis></para>
+  MERGE(</emphasis><emphasis> sorts </emphasis><emphasis role="bold">) ] </emphasis><emphasis role="bold">[, UNORDERED | ORDERED(</emphasis> <emphasis>bool </emphasis><emphasis role="bold">) ] [, STABLE | UNSTABLE ] [, PARALLEL [ (</emphasis> <emphasis>numthreads </emphasis><emphasis role="bold">) ] ] [, ALGORITHM(</emphasis> <emphasis>name </emphasis><emphasis role="bold">) ] )</emphasis></para>
 
   <para><emphasis role="bold">DISTRIBUTE(</emphasis><emphasis>recordset, index
   </emphasis><emphasis role="bold">[</emphasis><emphasis>, joincondition
-  </emphasis><emphasis role="bold">] )</emphasis><emphasis
-  role="bold"></emphasis></para>
+  </emphasis><emphasis role="bold">] </emphasis><emphasis role="bold">[, UNORDERED | ORDERED(</emphasis> <emphasis>bool </emphasis><emphasis role="bold">) ] [, STABLE | UNSTABLE ] [, PARALLEL [ (</emphasis> <emphasis>numthreads </emphasis><emphasis role="bold">) ] ] [, ALGORITHM(</emphasis> <emphasis>name </emphasis><emphasis role="bold">) ] )</emphasis></para>
 
   <para><emphasis role="bold">DISTRIBUTE(</emphasis><emphasis>recordset,
   </emphasis><emphasis role="bold"> SKEW<indexterm>
       <primary>SKEW</primary>
     </indexterm>(</emphasis><emphasis> maxskew </emphasis><emphasis
   role="bold">[</emphasis><emphasis>, skewlimit</emphasis><emphasis
-  role="bold"> ] ) )</emphasis></para>
+  role="bold"> ] ) </emphasis><emphasis role="bold">[, UNORDERED | ORDERED(</emphasis> <emphasis>bool </emphasis><emphasis role="bold">) ] [, STABLE | UNSTABLE ] [, PARALLEL [ (</emphasis> <emphasis>numthreads </emphasis><emphasis role="bold">) ] ] [, ALGORITHM(</emphasis> <emphasis>name </emphasis><emphasis role="bold">) ] )</emphasis></para>
 
   <para><informaltable colsep="1" frame="all" rowsep="1">
       <tgroup cols="2">
@@ -99,6 +96,51 @@
             (0.0) to one (1.0) specifying the maximum skew to allow
             (0.1=10%).</entry>
           </row>
+          <row>
+            <entry><emphasis role="bold">UNORDERED</emphasis></entry>
+
+            <entry>Optional. Specifies the output record order is not significant.</entry>
+          </row>
+          <row>
+            <entry><emphasis role="bold">ORDERED</emphasis></entry>
+
+            <entry>Specifies the significance of the output record order.</entry>
+          </row>
+          <row>
+            <entry><emphasis>bool</emphasis></entry>
+
+            <entry>When False, specifies the output record order is not significant. When True, specifies the default output record order.</entry>
+          </row>
+          <row>
+            <entry><emphasis role="bold">STABLE</emphasis></entry>
+
+            <entry>Optional. Specifies the input record order is significant.</entry>
+          </row>
+          <row>
+            <entry><emphasis role="bold">UNSTABLE</emphasis></entry>
+
+            <entry>Optional. Specifies the input record order is not significant.</entry>
+          </row>
+          <row>
+            <entry><emphasis role="bold">PARALLEL</emphasis></entry>
+
+            <entry>Optional. Try to evaluate this activity in parallel.</entry>
+          </row>
+          <row>
+            <entry><emphasis>numthreads</emphasis></entry>
+
+            <entry>Optional. Try to evaluate this activity using <emphasis>numthreads</emphasis> threads.</entry>
+          </row>
+          <row>
+            <entry><emphasis role="bold">ALGORITHM</emphasis></entry>
+
+            <entry>Optional. Override the algorithm used for this activity.</entry>
+          </row>
+          <row>
+            <entry><emphasis>name</emphasis></entry>
+
+            <entry>The algorithm to use for this activity. Must be from the list of supported algorithms for the SORT function's STABLE and UNSTABLE options.</entry>
+          </row>
 
           <row>
             <entry>Return:</entry>

docs/ECLLanguageReference/ECLR_mods/BltInFunc-DISTRIBUTION.xml

@@ -13,7 +13,7 @@
   ] [</emphasis><emphasis>,</emphasis><emphasis role="bold"> NAMED<indexterm>
       <primary>NAMED</primary>
     </indexterm>( </emphasis><emphasis>name</emphasis><emphasis role="bold"> )
-  ] )</emphasis></para>
+  ] </emphasis><emphasis role="bold">[, UNORDERED | ORDERED(</emphasis> <emphasis>bool </emphasis><emphasis role="bold">) ] [, STABLE | UNSTABLE ] [, PARALLEL [ (</emphasis> <emphasis>numthreads </emphasis><emphasis role="bold">) ] ] [, ALGORITHM(</emphasis> <emphasis>name </emphasis><emphasis role="bold">) ] )</emphasis></para>
 
   <para><informaltable colsep="1" frame="all" rowsep="1">
       <tgroup cols="2">
@@ -48,6 +48,52 @@
 
             <entry>A string constant containing the result label.</entry>
           </row>
+          <row>
+            <entry><emphasis role="bold">UNORDERED</emphasis></entry>
+
+            <entry>Optional. Specifies the output record order is not significant.</entry>
+          </row>
+          <row>
+            <entry><emphasis role="bold">ORDERED</emphasis></entry>
+
+            <entry>Specifies the significance of the output record order.</entry>
+          </row>
+          <row>
+            <entry><emphasis>bool</emphasis></entry>
+
+            <entry>When False, specifies the output record order is not significant. When True, specifies the default output record order.</entry>
+          </row>
+          <row>
+            <entry><emphasis role="bold">STABLE</emphasis></entry>
+
+            <entry>Optional. Specifies the input record order is significant.</entry>
+          </row>
+          <row>
+            <entry><emphasis role="bold">UNSTABLE</emphasis></entry>
+
+            <entry>Optional. Specifies the input record order is not significant.</entry>
+          </row>
+          <row>
+            <entry><emphasis role="bold">PARALLEL</emphasis></entry>
+
+            <entry>Optional. Try to evaluate this activity in parallel.</entry>
+          </row>
+          <row>
+            <entry><emphasis>numthreads</emphasis></entry>
+
+            <entry>Optional. Try to evaluate this activity using <emphasis>numthreads</emphasis> threads.</entry>
+          </row>
+          <row>
+            <entry><emphasis role="bold">ALGORITHM</emphasis></entry>
+
+            <entry>Optional. Override the algorithm used for this activity.</entry>
+          </row>
+          <row>
+            <entry><emphasis>name</emphasis></entry>
+
+            <entry>The algorithm to use for this activity. Must be from the list of supported algorithms for the SORT function's STABLE and UNSTABLE options.</entry>
+          </row>
+          
         </tbody>
       </tgroup>
     </informaltable></para>

docs/ECLLanguageReference/ECLR_mods/BltInFunc-EBCDIC.xml

@@ -8,8 +8,7 @@
 
   <para><emphasis role="bold">EBCDIC<indexterm>
       <primary>EBCDIC function</primary>
-    </indexterm>(</emphasis><emphasis>recordset</emphasis><emphasis
-  role="bold">)</emphasis></para>
+    </indexterm>(</emphasis><emphasis>recordset</emphasis><emphasis role="bold">[, UNORDERED | ORDERED(</emphasis> <emphasis>bool </emphasis><emphasis role="bold">) ] [, STABLE | UNSTABLE ] [, PARALLEL [ (</emphasis> <emphasis>numthreads </emphasis><emphasis role="bold">) ] ] [, ALGORITHM(</emphasis> <emphasis>name </emphasis><emphasis role="bold">) ] )</emphasis></para>
 
   <para><informaltable colsep="1" frame="all" rowsep="1">
       <tgroup cols="2">
@@ -25,6 +24,51 @@
             dataset or a record set derived from some filter condition, or any
             expression that results in a derived record set.</entry>
           </row>
+          <row>
+            <entry><emphasis role="bold">UNORDERED</emphasis></entry>
+
+            <entry>Optional. Specifies the output record order is not significant.</entry>
+          </row>
+          <row>
+            <entry><emphasis role="bold">ORDERED</emphasis></entry>
+
+            <entry>Specifies the significance of the output record order.</entry>
+          </row>
+          <row>
+            <entry><emphasis>bool</emphasis></entry>
+
+            <entry>When False, specifies the output record order is not significant. When True, specifies the default output record order.</entry>
+          </row>
+          <row>
+            <entry><emphasis role="bold">STABLE</emphasis></entry>
+
+            <entry>Optional. Specifies the input record order is significant.</entry>
+          </row>
+          <row>
+            <entry><emphasis role="bold">UNSTABLE</emphasis></entry>
+
+            <entry>Optional. Specifies the input record order is not significant.</entry>
+          </row>
+          <row>
+            <entry><emphasis role="bold">PARALLEL</emphasis></entry>
+
+            <entry>Optional. Try to evaluate this activity in parallel.</entry>
+          </row>
+          <row>
+            <entry><emphasis>numthreads</emphasis></entry>
+
+            <entry>Optional. Try to evaluate this activity using <emphasis>numthreads</emphasis> threads.</entry>
+          </row>
+          <row>
+            <entry><emphasis role="bold">ALGORITHM</emphasis></entry>
+
+            <entry>Optional. Override the algorithm used for this activity.</entry>
+          </row>
+          <row>
+            <entry><emphasis>name</emphasis></entry>
+
+            <entry>The algorithm to use for this activity. Must be from the list of supported algorithms for the SORT function's STABLE and UNSTABLE options.</entry>
+          </row>
 
           <row>
             <entry>Return:</entry>

docs/ECLLanguageReference/ECLR_mods/BltInFunc-ENTH.xml

@@ -14,7 +14,7 @@
   </emphasis><emphasis role="bold">] ] [</emphasis>,<emphasis role="bold">
   LOCAL<indexterm>
       <primary>LOCAL</primary>
-    </indexterm>] )</emphasis></para>
+    </indexterm>] </emphasis><emphasis role="bold">[, UNORDERED | ORDERED(</emphasis> <emphasis>bool </emphasis><emphasis role="bold">) ] [, STABLE | UNSTABLE ] [, PARALLEL [ (</emphasis> <emphasis>numthreads </emphasis><emphasis role="bold">) ] ] [, ALGORITHM(</emphasis> <emphasis>name </emphasis><emphasis role="bold">) ] )</emphasis></para>
 
   <para><informaltable colsep="1" frame="all" rowsep="1">
       <tgroup cols="2">
@@ -63,6 +63,51 @@
             other nodes, significantly improving performance if exact results
             are not required.</entry>
           </row>
+          <row>
+            <entry><emphasis role="bold">UNORDERED</emphasis></entry>
+
+            <entry>Optional. Specifies the output record order is not significant.</entry>
+          </row>
+          <row>
+            <entry><emphasis role="bold">ORDERED</emphasis></entry>
+
+            <entry>Specifies the significance of the output record order.</entry>
+          </row>
+          <row>
+            <entry><emphasis>bool</emphasis></entry>
+
+            <entry>When False, specifies the output record order is not significant. When True, specifies the default output record order.</entry>
+          </row>
+          <row>
+            <entry><emphasis role="bold">STABLE</emphasis></entry>
+
+            <entry>Optional. Specifies the input record order is significant.</entry>
+          </row>
+          <row>
+            <entry><emphasis role="bold">UNSTABLE</emphasis></entry>
+
+            <entry>Optional. Specifies the input record order is not significant.</entry>
+          </row>
+          <row>
+            <entry><emphasis role="bold">PARALLEL</emphasis></entry>
+
+            <entry>Optional. Try to evaluate this activity in parallel.</entry>
+          </row>
+          <row>
+            <entry><emphasis>numthreads</emphasis></entry>
+
+            <entry>Optional. Try to evaluate this activity using <emphasis>numthreads</emphasis> threads.</entry>
+          </row>
+          <row>
+            <entry><emphasis role="bold">ALGORITHM</emphasis></entry>
+
+            <entry>Optional. Override the algorithm used for this activity.</entry>
+          </row>
+          <row>
+            <entry><emphasis>name</emphasis></entry>
+
+            <entry>The algorithm to use for this activity. Must be from the list of supported algorithms for the SORT function's STABLE and UNSTABLE options.</entry>
+          </row>
 
           <row>
             <entry>Return:</entry>

docs/ECLLanguageReference/ECLR_mods/BltInFunc-EXISTS.xml

@@ -11,11 +11,9 @@
     </indexterm>(</emphasis><emphasis>recordset </emphasis><emphasis
   role="bold">[, KEYED<indexterm>
       <primary>KEYED</primary>
-    </indexterm> ])</emphasis></para>
+    </indexterm> ] </emphasis><emphasis role="bold">[, UNORDERED | ORDERED(</emphasis> <emphasis>bool </emphasis><emphasis role="bold">) ] [, STABLE | UNSTABLE ] [, PARALLEL [ (</emphasis> <emphasis>numthreads </emphasis><emphasis role="bold">) ] ] [, ALGORITHM(</emphasis> <emphasis>name </emphasis><emphasis role="bold">) ] )</emphasis></para>
 
-  <para><emphasis
-  role="bold">EXISTS(</emphasis><emphasis>valuelist</emphasis><emphasis
-  role="bold">)</emphasis></para>
+  <para><emphasis role="bold">EXISTS(</emphasis><emphasis> valuelist</emphasis><emphasis role="bold"> )</emphasis></para>
 
   <para><informaltable colsep="1" frame="all" rowsep="1">
       <tgroup cols="2">
@@ -47,6 +45,51 @@
             <entry>A comma-delimited list of expressions. This may also be a
             SET of values.</entry>
           </row>
+          <row>
+            <entry><emphasis role="bold">UNORDERED</emphasis></entry>
+
+            <entry>Optional. Specifies the output record order is not significant.</entry>
+          </row>
+          <row>
+            <entry><emphasis role="bold">ORDERED</emphasis></entry>
+
+            <entry>Specifies the significance of the output record order.</entry>
+          </row>
+          <row>
+            <entry><emphasis>bool</emphasis></entry>
+
+            <entry>When False, specifies the output record order is not significant. When True, specifies the default output record order.</entry>
+          </row>
+          <row>
+            <entry><emphasis role="bold">STABLE</emphasis></entry>
+
+            <entry>Optional. Specifies the input record order is significant.</entry>
+          </row>
+          <row>
+            <entry><emphasis role="bold">UNSTABLE</emphasis></entry>
+
+            <entry>Optional. Specifies the input record order is not significant.</entry>
+          </row>
+          <row>
+            <entry><emphasis role="bold">PARALLEL</emphasis></entry>
+
+            <entry>Optional. Try to evaluate this activity in parallel.</entry>
+          </row>
+          <row>
+            <entry><emphasis>numthreads</emphasis></entry>
+
+            <entry>Optional. Try to evaluate this activity using <emphasis>numthreads</emphasis> threads.</entry>
+          </row>
+          <row>
+            <entry><emphasis role="bold">ALGORITHM</emphasis></entry>
+
+            <entry>Optional. Override the algorithm used for this activity.</entry>
+          </row>
+          <row>
+            <entry><emphasis>name</emphasis></entry>
+
+            <entry>The algorithm to use for this activity. Must be from the list of supported algorithms for the SORT function's STABLE and UNSTABLE options.</entry>
+          </row>
 
           <row>
             <entry>Return:</entry>

docs/ECLLanguageReference/ECLR_mods/BltInFunc-FETCH.xml

@@ -13,7 +13,7 @@
   </emphasis><emphasis role="bold">]</emphasis><emphasis> </emphasis><emphasis
   role="bold">[, LOCAL<indexterm>
       <primary>LOCAL</primary>
-    </indexterm>] )</emphasis></para>
+    </indexterm>] </emphasis><emphasis role="bold">[, UNORDERED | ORDERED(</emphasis> <emphasis>bool </emphasis><emphasis role="bold">) ] [, STABLE | UNSTABLE ] [, PARALLEL [ (</emphasis> <emphasis>numthreads </emphasis><emphasis role="bold">) ] ] [, ALGORITHM(</emphasis> <emphasis>name </emphasis><emphasis role="bold">) ] )</emphasis></para>
 
   <para><informaltable colsep="1" frame="all" rowsep="1">
       <tgroup cols="2">
@@ -64,6 +64,51 @@
             with all other nodes to acquire data; the operation maintains the
             distribution of any previous DISTRIBUTE.</entry>
           </row>
+          <row>
+            <entry><emphasis role="bold">UNORDERED</emphasis></entry>
+
+            <entry>Optional. Specifies the output record order is not significant.</entry>
+          </row>
+          <row>
+            <entry><emphasis role="bold">ORDERED</emphasis></entry>
+
+            <entry>Specifies the significance of the output record order.</entry>
+          </row>
+          <row>
+            <entry><emphasis>bool</emphasis></entry>
+
+            <entry>When False, specifies the output record order is not significant. When True, specifies the default output record order.</entry>
+          </row>
+          <row>
+            <entry><emphasis role="bold">STABLE</emphasis></entry>
+
+            <entry>Optional. Specifies the input record order is significant.</entry>
+          </row>
+          <row>
+            <entry><emphasis role="bold">UNSTABLE</emphasis></entry>
+
+            <entry>Optional. Specifies the input record order is not significant.</entry>
+          </row>
+          <row>
+            <entry><emphasis role="bold">PARALLEL</emphasis></entry>
+
+            <entry>Optional. Try to evaluate this activity in parallel.</entry>
+          </row>
+          <row>
+            <entry><emphasis>numthreads</emphasis></entry>
+
+            <entry>Optional. Try to evaluate this activity using <emphasis>numthreads</emphasis> threads.</entry>
+          </row>
+          <row>
+            <entry><emphasis role="bold">ALGORITHM</emphasis></entry>
+
+            <entry>Optional. Override the algorithm used for this activity.</entry>
+          </row>
+          <row>
+            <entry><emphasis>name</emphasis></entry>
+
+            <entry>The algorithm to use for this activity. Must be from the list of supported algorithms for the SORT function's STABLE and UNSTABLE options.</entry>
+          </row>
 
           <row>
             <entry>Return:</entry>

docs/ECLLanguageReference/ECLR_mods/BltInFunc-GRAPH.xml

@@ -10,7 +10,7 @@
       <primary>GRAPH function</primary>
     </indexterm>( </emphasis><emphasis>recordset , iterations
   </emphasis><emphasis role="bold">, </emphasis><emphasis>
-  processor</emphasis><emphasis role="bold"> )</emphasis></para>
+  processor</emphasis> <emphasis role="bold">[, UNORDERED | ORDERED(</emphasis> <emphasis>bool </emphasis><emphasis role="bold">) ] [, STABLE | UNSTABLE ] [, PARALLEL [ (</emphasis> <emphasis>numthreads </emphasis><emphasis role="bold">) ] ] [, ALGORITHM(</emphasis> <emphasis>name </emphasis><emphasis role="bold">) ] )</emphasis></para>
 
   <para><informaltable colsep="1" frame="all" rowsep="1">
       <tgroup cols="2">
@@ -62,6 +62,51 @@
 </programlisting></entry>
           </row>
 
+          <row>
+            <entry><emphasis role="bold">UNORDERED</emphasis></entry>
+
+            <entry>Optional. Specifies the output record order is not significant.</entry>
+          </row>
+          <row>
+            <entry><emphasis role="bold">ORDERED</emphasis></entry>
+
+            <entry>Specifies the significance of the output record order.</entry>
+          </row>
+          <row>
+            <entry><emphasis>bool</emphasis></entry>
+
+            <entry>When False, specifies the output record order is not significant. When True, specifies the default output record order.</entry>
+          </row>
+          <row>
+            <entry><emphasis role="bold">STABLE</emphasis></entry>
+
+            <entry>Optional. Specifies the input record order is significant.</entry>
+          </row>
+          <row>
+            <entry><emphasis role="bold">UNSTABLE</emphasis></entry>
+
+            <entry>Optional. Specifies the input record order is not significant.</entry>
+          </row>
+          <row>
+            <entry><emphasis role="bold">PARALLEL</emphasis></entry>
+
+            <entry>Optional. Try to evaluate this activity in parallel.</entry>
+          </row>
+          <row>
+            <entry><emphasis>numthreads</emphasis></entry>
+
+            <entry>Optional. Try to evaluate this activity using <emphasis>numthreads</emphasis> threads.</entry>
+          </row>
+          <row>
+            <entry><emphasis role="bold">ALGORITHM</emphasis></entry>
+
+            <entry>Optional. Override the algorithm used for this activity.</entry>
+          </row>
+          <row>
+            <entry><emphasis>name</emphasis></entry>
+
+            <entry>The algorithm to use for this activity. Must be from the list of supported algorithms for the SORT function's STABLE and UNSTABLE options.</entry>
+          </row>
 
           <row>
             <entry>Return:</entry>

docs/ECLLanguageReference/ECLR_mods/BltInFunc-GROUP.xml

@@ -16,7 +16,7 @@
   role="bold">LOCAL<indexterm>
       <primary>LOCAL</primary>
     </indexterm></emphasis><emphasis> </emphasis><emphasis role="bold">]
-  )</emphasis></para>
+  </emphasis> <emphasis role="bold">[, UNORDERED | ORDERED(</emphasis> <emphasis>bool </emphasis><emphasis role="bold">) ] [, STABLE | UNSTABLE ] [, PARALLEL [ (</emphasis> <emphasis>numthreads </emphasis><emphasis role="bold">) ] ] [, ALGORITHM(</emphasis> <emphasis>name </emphasis><emphasis role="bold">) ] )</emphasis></para>
 
   <para><informaltable colsep="1" frame="all" rowsep="1">
       <tgroup cols="2">
@@ -61,6 +61,51 @@
             with all other nodes to acquire data; the operation maintains the
             distribution of any previous DISTRIBUTE.</entry>
           </row>
+          <row>
+            <entry><emphasis role="bold">UNORDERED</emphasis></entry>
+
+            <entry>Optional. Specifies the output record order is not significant.</entry>
+          </row>
+          <row>
+            <entry><emphasis role="bold">ORDERED</emphasis></entry>
+
+            <entry>Specifies the significance of the output record order.</entry>
+          </row>
+          <row>
+            <entry><emphasis>bool</emphasis></entry>
+
+            <entry>When False, specifies the output record order is not significant. When True, specifies the default output record order.</entry>
+          </row>
+          <row>
+            <entry><emphasis role="bold">STABLE</emphasis></entry>
+
+            <entry>Optional. Specifies the input record order is significant.</entry>
+          </row>
+          <row>
+            <entry><emphasis role="bold">UNSTABLE</emphasis></entry>
+
+            <entry>Optional. Specifies the input record order is not significant.</entry>
+          </row>
+          <row>
+            <entry><emphasis role="bold">PARALLEL</emphasis></entry>
+
+            <entry>Optional. Try to evaluate this activity in parallel.</entry>
+          </row>
+          <row>
+            <entry><emphasis>numthreads</emphasis></entry>
+
+            <entry>Optional. Try to evaluate this activity using <emphasis>numthreads</emphasis> threads.</entry>
+          </row>
+          <row>
+            <entry><emphasis role="bold">ALGORITHM</emphasis></entry>
+
+            <entry>Optional. Override the algorithm used for this activity.</entry>
+          </row>
+          <row>
+            <entry><emphasis>name</emphasis></entry>
+
+            <entry>The algorithm to use for this activity. Must be from the list of supported algorithms for the SORT function's STABLE and UNSTABLE options.</entry>
+          </row>
 
           <row>
             <entry>Return:</entry>

docs/ECLLanguageReference/ECLR_mods/BltInFunc-HAVING.xml

@@ -9,7 +9,7 @@
     </indexterm><indexterm>
       <primary>HAVING function</primary>
     </indexterm>(</emphasis><emphasis> groupdataset, expression
-  </emphasis><emphasis role="bold">)</emphasis></para>
+  </emphasis> <emphasis role="bold">[, UNORDERED | ORDERED(</emphasis> <emphasis>bool </emphasis><emphasis role="bold">) ] [, STABLE | UNSTABLE ] [, PARALLEL [ (</emphasis> <emphasis>numthreads </emphasis><emphasis role="bold">) ] ] [, ALGORITHM(</emphasis> <emphasis>name </emphasis><emphasis role="bold">) ] )</emphasis></para>
 
   <para><informaltable colsep="1" frame="all" rowsep="1">
       <tgroup cols="2">
@@ -30,6 +30,51 @@
             <entry>The logical expression by which to filter the
             groups.</entry>
           </row>
+          <row>
+            <entry><emphasis role="bold">UNORDERED</emphasis></entry>
+
+            <entry>Optional. Specifies the output record order is not significant.</entry>
+          </row>
+          <row>
+            <entry><emphasis role="bold">ORDERED</emphasis></entry>
+
+            <entry>Specifies the significance of the output record order.</entry>
+          </row>
+          <row>
+            <entry><emphasis>bool</emphasis></entry>
+
+            <entry>When False, specifies the output record order is not significant. When True, specifies the default output record order.</entry>
+          </row>
+          <row>
+            <entry><emphasis role="bold">STABLE</emphasis></entry>
+
+            <entry>Optional. Specifies the input record order is significant.</entry>
+          </row>
+          <row>
+            <entry><emphasis role="bold">UNSTABLE</emphasis></entry>
+
+            <entry>Optional. Specifies the input record order is not significant.</entry>
+          </row>
+          <row>
+            <entry><emphasis role="bold">PARALLEL</emphasis></entry>
+
+            <entry>Optional. Try to evaluate this activity in parallel.</entry>
+          </row>
+          <row>
+            <entry><emphasis>numthreads</emphasis></entry>
+
+            <entry>Optional. Try to evaluate this activity using <emphasis>numthreads</emphasis> threads.</entry>
+          </row>
+          <row>
+            <entry><emphasis role="bold">ALGORITHM</emphasis></entry>
+
+            <entry>Optional. Override the algorithm used for this activity.</entry>
+          </row>
+          <row>
+            <entry><emphasis>name</emphasis></entry>
+
+            <entry>The algorithm to use for this activity. Must be from the list of supported algorithms for the SORT function's STABLE and UNSTABLE options.</entry>
+          </row>
 
           <row>
             <entry>Return:</entry>

docs/ECLLanguageReference/ECLR_mods/BltInFunc-ITERATE.xml

@@ -11,7 +11,7 @@
     </indexterm>(</emphasis><emphasis>recordset, transform
   </emphasis><emphasis role="bold">[, LOCAL<indexterm>
       <primary>LOCAL</primary>
-    </indexterm> ] )</emphasis></para>
+    </indexterm> ] </emphasis><emphasis role="bold">[, UNORDERED | ORDERED(</emphasis> <emphasis>bool </emphasis><emphasis role="bold">) ] [, STABLE | UNSTABLE ] [, PARALLEL [ (</emphasis> <emphasis>numthreads </emphasis><emphasis role="bold">) ] ] [, ALGORITHM(</emphasis> <emphasis>name </emphasis><emphasis role="bold">) ] )</emphasis></para>
 
   <informaltable colsep="1" frame="all" rowsep="1">
     <tgroup cols="2">
@@ -30,6 +30,52 @@
           <entry>The TRANSFORM function to call for each record in the
           <emphasis>recordset</emphasis>.</entry>
         </row>
+          <row>
+            <entry><emphasis role="bold">UNORDERED</emphasis></entry>
+
+            <entry>Optional. Specifies the output record order is not significant.</entry>
+          </row>
+          <row>
+            <entry><emphasis role="bold">ORDERED</emphasis></entry>
+
+            <entry>Specifies the significance of the output record order.</entry>
+          </row>
+          <row>
+            <entry><emphasis>bool</emphasis></entry>
+
+            <entry>When False, specifies the output record order is not significant. When True, specifies the default output record order.</entry>
+          </row>
+          <row>
+            <entry><emphasis role="bold">STABLE</emphasis></entry>
+
+            <entry>Optional. Specifies the input record order is significant.</entry>
+          </row>
+          <row>
+            <entry><emphasis role="bold">UNSTABLE</emphasis></entry>
+
+            <entry>Optional. Specifies the input record order is not significant.</entry>
+          </row>
+          <row>
+            <entry><emphasis role="bold">PARALLEL</emphasis></entry>
+
+            <entry>Optional. Try to evaluate this activity in parallel.</entry>
+          </row>
+          <row>
+            <entry><emphasis>numthreads</emphasis></entry>
+
+            <entry>Optional. Try to evaluate this activity using <emphasis>numthreads</emphasis> threads.</entry>
+          </row>
+          <row>
+            <entry><emphasis role="bold">ALGORITHM</emphasis></entry>
+
+            <entry>Optional. Override the algorithm used for this activity.</entry>
+          </row>
+          <row>
+            <entry><emphasis>name</emphasis></entry>
+
+            <entry>The algorithm to use for this activity. Must be from the list of supported algorithms for the SORT function's STABLE and UNSTABLE options.</entry>
+          </row>
+
       </tbody>
     </tgroup>
   </informaltable>

docs/ECLLanguageReference/ECLR_mods/BltInFunc-JOIN.xml

@@ -255,11 +255,9 @@
     role="bold">] ) [, THRESHOLD<indexterm>
         <primary>THRESHOLD</primary>
       </indexterm>( </emphasis><emphasis>size</emphasis><emphasis role="bold">
-    ) ] ] [, PARALLEL<indexterm>
-        <primary>PARALLEL</primary>
-      </indexterm> ][, SMART<indexterm>
+    ) ] ] [, SMART<indexterm>
         <primary>SMART</primary>
-      </indexterm> ]</emphasis></para>
+      </indexterm> ]</emphasis> <emphasis role="bold">[, UNORDERED | ORDERED(</emphasis> <emphasis>bool </emphasis><emphasis role="bold">) ] [, STABLE | UNSTABLE ] [, PARALLEL [ (</emphasis> <emphasis>numthreads </emphasis><emphasis role="bold">) ] ] [, ALGORITHM(</emphasis> <emphasis>name </emphasis><emphasis role="bold">) ]</emphasis></para>
 
     <informaltable colsep="1" frame="all" rowsep="1">
       <tgroup cols="2">
@@ -554,11 +552,49 @@
           </row>
 
           <row>
+            <entry><emphasis role="bold">UNORDERED</emphasis></entry>
+
+            <entry>Optional. Specifies the output record order is not significant.</entry>
+          </row>
+          <row>
+            <entry><emphasis role="bold">ORDERED</emphasis></entry>
+
+            <entry>Specifies the significance of the output record order.</entry>
+          </row>
+          <row>
+            <entry><emphasis>bool</emphasis></entry>
+
+            <entry>When False, specifies the output record order is not significant. When True, specifies the default output record order.</entry>
+          </row>
+          <row>
+            <entry><emphasis role="bold">STABLE</emphasis></entry>
+
+            <entry>Optional. Specifies the input record order is significant.</entry>
+          </row>
+          <row>
+            <entry><emphasis role="bold">UNSTABLE</emphasis></entry>
+
+            <entry>Optional. Specifies the input record order is not significant.</entry>
+          </row>
+          <row>
             <entry><emphasis role="bold">PARALLEL</emphasis></entry>
 
-            <entry>Specifies the <emphasis>leftrecset</emphasis> and
-            <emphasis>rightrecset</emphasis> should be read on separate
-            threads to minimize latency.</entry>
+            <entry>Optional. Try to evaluate this activity in parallel.</entry>
+          </row>
+          <row>
+            <entry><emphasis>numthreads</emphasis></entry>
+
+            <entry>Optional. Try to evaluate this activity using <emphasis>numthreads</emphasis> threads.</entry>
+          </row>
+          <row>
+            <entry><emphasis role="bold">ALGORITHM</emphasis></entry>
+
+            <entry>Optional. Override the algorithm used for this activity.</entry>
+          </row>
+          <row>
+            <entry><emphasis>name</emphasis></entry>
+
+            <entry>The algorithm to use for this activity. Must be from the list of supported algorithms for the SORT function's STABLE and UNSTABLE options.</entry>
           </row>
         </tbody>
       </tgroup>
@@ -858,7 +894,7 @@ SEQUENTIAL(PtblOut,Bld1,Bld2,OUTPUT(FilledRecs1),OUTPUT(FilledRecs2))
         <primary>SORTED</primary>
       </indexterm>( </emphasis><emphasis>fields</emphasis><emphasis
     role="bold">) [</emphasis><emphasis>, jointype</emphasis><emphasis
-    role="bold">] )</emphasis></para>
+    role="bold">] </emphasis><emphasis role="bold">[, UNORDERED | ORDERED(</emphasis> <emphasis>bool </emphasis><emphasis role="bold">) ] [, STABLE | UNSTABLE ] [, PARALLEL [ (</emphasis> <emphasis>numthreads </emphasis><emphasis role="bold">) ] ] [, ALGORITHM(</emphasis> <emphasis>name </emphasis><emphasis role="bold">) ] )</emphasis></para>
 
     <para><emphasis role="bold"><emphasis>The second form of JOIN is similar
     to the MERGEJOIN function<indexterm>

docs/ECLLanguageReference/ECLR_mods/BltInFunc-KEYDIFF.xml

@@ -17,7 +17,7 @@
   EXPIRE<indexterm>
       <primary>EXPIRE</primary>
     </indexterm>( [ </emphasis><emphasis>days </emphasis><emphasis
-  role="bold">] ) ] );</emphasis></para>
+  role="bold">] ) ] </emphasis><emphasis role="bold">[, UNORDERED | ORDERED(</emphasis> <emphasis>bool </emphasis><emphasis role="bold">) ] [, STABLE | UNSTABLE ] [, PARALLEL [ (</emphasis> <emphasis>numthreads </emphasis><emphasis role="bold">) ] ] [, ALGORITHM(</emphasis> <emphasis>name </emphasis><emphasis role="bold">) ] );</emphasis></para>
 
   <informaltable colsep="1" frame="all" rowsep="1">
     <tgroup cols="2">
@@ -74,6 +74,52 @@
           <entry>Optional. The number of days after which the file may be
           automatically deleted. If omitted, the default is seven (7).</entry>
         </row>
+
+          <row>
+            <entry><emphasis role="bold">UNORDERED</emphasis></entry>
+
+            <entry>Optional. Specifies the output record order is not significant.</entry>
+          </row>
+          <row>
+            <entry><emphasis role="bold">ORDERED</emphasis></entry>
+
+            <entry>Specifies the significance of the output record order.</entry>
+          </row>
+          <row>
+            <entry><emphasis>bool</emphasis></entry>
+
+            <entry>When False, specifies the output record order is not significant. When True, specifies the default output record order.</entry>
+          </row>
+          <row>
+            <entry><emphasis role="bold">STABLE</emphasis></entry>
+
+            <entry>Optional. Specifies the input record order is significant.</entry>
+          </row>
+          <row>
+            <entry><emphasis role="bold">UNSTABLE</emphasis></entry>
+
+            <entry>Optional. Specifies the input record order is not significant.</entry>
+          </row>
+          <row>
+            <entry><emphasis role="bold">PARALLEL</emphasis></entry>
+
+            <entry>Optional. Try to evaluate this activity in parallel.</entry>
+          </row>
+          <row>
+            <entry><emphasis>numthreads</emphasis></entry>
+
+            <entry>Optional. Try to evaluate this activity using <emphasis>numthreads</emphasis> threads.</entry>
+          </row>
+          <row>
+            <entry><emphasis role="bold">ALGORITHM</emphasis></entry>
+
+            <entry>Optional. Override the algorithm used for this activity.</entry>
+          </row>
+          <row>
+            <entry><emphasis>name</emphasis></entry>
+
+            <entry>The algorithm to use for this activity. Must be from the list of supported algorithms for the SORT function's STABLE and UNSTABLE options.</entry>
+          </row>
       </tbody>
     </tgroup>
   </informaltable>

docs/ECLLanguageReference/ECLR_mods/BltInFunc-KEYPATCH.xml

@@ -16,7 +16,7 @@
   EXPIRE<indexterm>
       <primary>EXPIRE</primary>
     </indexterm>( [ </emphasis><emphasis>days </emphasis><emphasis
-  role="bold">] ) ] );</emphasis></para>
+  role="bold">] ) ] </emphasis><emphasis role="bold">[, UNORDERED | ORDERED(</emphasis> <emphasis>bool </emphasis><emphasis role="bold">) ] [, STABLE | UNSTABLE ] [, PARALLEL [ (</emphasis> <emphasis>numthreads </emphasis><emphasis role="bold">) ] ] [, ALGORITHM(</emphasis> <emphasis>name </emphasis><emphasis role="bold">) ] );</emphasis></para>
 
   <informaltable colsep="1" frame="all" rowsep="1">
     <tgroup cols="2">
@@ -74,6 +74,52 @@
           <entry>Optional. The number of days after which the file may be
           automatically deleted. If omitted, the default is seven (7).</entry>
         </row>
+          <row>
+            <entry><emphasis role="bold">UNORDERED</emphasis></entry>
+
+            <entry>Optional. Specifies the output record order is not significant.</entry>
+          </row>
+          <row>
+            <entry><emphasis role="bold">ORDERED</emphasis></entry>
+
+            <entry>Specifies the significance of the output record order.</entry>
+          </row>
+          <row>
+            <entry><emphasis>bool</emphasis></entry>
+
+            <entry>When False, specifies the output record order is not significant. When True, specifies the default output record order.</entry>
+          </row>
+          <row>
+            <entry><emphasis role="bold">STABLE</emphasis></entry>
+
+            <entry>Optional. Specifies the input record order is significant.</entry>
+          </row>
+          <row>
+            <entry><emphasis role="bold">UNSTABLE</emphasis></entry>
+
+            <entry>Optional. Specifies the input record order is not significant.</entry>
+          </row>
+          <row>
+            <entry><emphasis role="bold">PARALLEL</emphasis></entry>
+
+            <entry>Optional. Try to evaluate this activity in parallel.</entry>
+          </row>
+          <row>
+            <entry><emphasis>numthreads</emphasis></entry>
+
+            <entry>Optional. Try to evaluate this activity using <emphasis>numthreads</emphasis> threads.</entry>
+          </row>
+          <row>
+            <entry><emphasis role="bold">ALGORITHM</emphasis></entry>
+
+            <entry>Optional. Override the algorithm used for this activity.</entry>
+          </row>
+          <row>
+            <entry><emphasis>name</emphasis></entry>
+
+            <entry>The algorithm to use for this activity. Must be from the list of supported algorithms for the SORT function's STABLE and UNSTABLE options.</entry>
+          </row>
+        
       </tbody>
     </tgroup>
   </informaltable>

docs/ECLLanguageReference/ECLR_mods/BltInFunc-LIMIT.xml

@@ -20,8 +20,7 @@
     </indexterm></emphasis><emphasis> </emphasis><emphasis role="bold">] ]
   [</emphasis><emphasis>, </emphasis><emphasis role="bold">SKIP<indexterm>
       <primary>SKIP</primary>
-    </indexterm></emphasis><emphasis> </emphasis><emphasis role="bold">]
-  )</emphasis></para>
+    </indexterm></emphasis> <emphasis role="bold">[, UNORDERED | ORDERED(</emphasis> <emphasis>bool </emphasis><emphasis role="bold">) ] [, STABLE | UNSTABLE ] [, PARALLEL [ (</emphasis> <emphasis>numthreads </emphasis><emphasis role="bold">) ] ] [, ALGORITHM(</emphasis> <emphasis>name </emphasis><emphasis role="bold">) ] )</emphasis></para>
 
   <para><emphasis role="bold">LIMIT(</emphasis><emphasis>recset,
   maxrecs</emphasis><emphasis role="bold"> [</emphasis><emphasis>,
@@ -36,7 +35,7 @@
   role="bold">COUNT<indexterm>
       <primary>COUNT</primary>
     </indexterm></emphasis><emphasis> </emphasis><emphasis role="bold">] ]
-  )</emphasis></para>
+  [, UNORDERED | ORDERED(</emphasis> <emphasis>bool </emphasis><emphasis role="bold">) ] [, STABLE | UNSTABLE ] [, PARALLEL [ (</emphasis> <emphasis>numthreads </emphasis><emphasis role="bold">) ] ] [, ALGORITHM(</emphasis> <emphasis>name </emphasis><emphasis role="bold">) ]</emphasis></para>
 
   <informaltable colsep="1" frame="all" rowsep="1">
     <tgroup cols="2">
@@ -100,6 +99,52 @@
           <entry>The TRANSFORM function to call to produce the single output
           record.</entry>
         </row>
+          <row>
+            <entry><emphasis role="bold">UNORDERED</emphasis></entry>
+
+            <entry>Optional. Specifies the output record order is not significant.</entry>
+          </row>
+          <row>
+            <entry><emphasis role="bold">ORDERED</emphasis></entry>
+
+            <entry>Specifies the significance of the output record order.</entry>
+          </row>
+          <row>
+            <entry><emphasis>bool</emphasis></entry>
+
+            <entry>When False, specifies the output record order is not significant. When True, specifies the default output record order.</entry>
+          </row>
+          <row>
+            <entry><emphasis role="bold">STABLE</emphasis></entry>
+
+            <entry>Optional. Specifies the input record order is significant.</entry>
+          </row>
+          <row>
+            <entry><emphasis role="bold">UNSTABLE</emphasis></entry>
+
+            <entry>Optional. Specifies the input record order is not significant.</entry>
+          </row>
+          <row>
+            <entry><emphasis role="bold">PARALLEL</emphasis></entry>
+
+            <entry>Optional. Try to evaluate this activity in parallel.</entry>
+          </row>
+          <row>
+            <entry><emphasis>numthreads</emphasis></entry>
+
+            <entry>Optional. Try to evaluate this activity using <emphasis>numthreads</emphasis> threads.</entry>
+          </row>
+          <row>
+            <entry><emphasis role="bold">ALGORITHM</emphasis></entry>
+
+            <entry>Optional. Override the algorithm used for this activity.</entry>
+          </row>
+          <row>
+            <entry><emphasis>name</emphasis></entry>
+
+            <entry>The algorithm to use for this activity. Must be from the list of supported algorithms for the SORT function's STABLE and UNSTABLE options.</entry>
+          </row>
+        
       </tbody>
     </tgroup>
   </informaltable>

docs/ECLLanguageReference/ECLR_mods/BltInFunc-LOOP.xml

@@ -9,31 +9,23 @@
     </indexterm><indexterm>
       <primary>LOOP function</primary>
     </indexterm>(</emphasis><emphasis> dataset,</emphasis><emphasis
-  role="bold"> </emphasis><emphasis>loopcount, loopbody </emphasis><emphasis
-  role="bold"> [, PARALLEL<indexterm>
-      <primary>PARALLEL</primary>
-    </indexterm>( </emphasis><emphasis>iterations </emphasis><emphasis
-  role="bold"> ) ] )</emphasis></para>
+  role="bold"> </emphasis><emphasis>loopcount, loopbody </emphasis><emphasis role="bold">[, UNORDERED | ORDERED(</emphasis> <emphasis>bool </emphasis><emphasis role="bold">) ] [, STABLE | UNSTABLE ] [, PARALLEL [ (</emphasis> <emphasis>numthreads </emphasis><emphasis role="bold">) ] ] [, ALGORITHM(</emphasis> <emphasis>name </emphasis><emphasis role="bold">) ] )</emphasis></para>
 
   <para><emphasis role="bold">LOOP(</emphasis><emphasis>
   dataset,</emphasis><emphasis role="bold"> </emphasis><emphasis>loopcount,
-  loopfilter, loopbody </emphasis><emphasis role="bold"> [, PARALLEL(
-  </emphasis><emphasis>iterations </emphasis><emphasis role="bold">] ) ]
-  )</emphasis></para>
+  loopfilter, loopbody </emphasis><emphasis role="bold">[, UNORDERED | ORDERED(</emphasis> <emphasis>bool </emphasis><emphasis role="bold">) ] [, STABLE | UNSTABLE ] [, PARALLEL [ (</emphasis> <emphasis>numthreads </emphasis><emphasis role="bold">) ] ] [, ALGORITHM(</emphasis> <emphasis>name </emphasis><emphasis role="bold">) ] )</emphasis></para>
 
   <para><emphasis role="bold">LOOP(</emphasis><emphasis>
   dataset,</emphasis><emphasis role="bold"> </emphasis><emphasis>loopfilter,
-  loopbody </emphasis><emphasis role="bold">)</emphasis><emphasis
-  role="bold"></emphasis></para>
+  loopbody </emphasis><emphasis role="bold">[, UNORDERED | ORDERED(</emphasis> <emphasis>bool </emphasis><emphasis role="bold">) ] [, STABLE | UNSTABLE ] [, PARALLEL [ (</emphasis> <emphasis>numthreads </emphasis><emphasis role="bold">) ] ] [, ALGORITHM(</emphasis> <emphasis>name </emphasis><emphasis role="bold">) ] )</emphasis></para>
 
   <para><emphasis role="bold">LOOP(</emphasis><emphasis>
   dataset, rowfilter,
-  loopcondition, loopbody </emphasis><emphasis role="bold">)</emphasis></para>
+  loopcondition, loopbody </emphasis><emphasis role="bold">[, UNORDERED | ORDERED(</emphasis> <emphasis>bool </emphasis><emphasis role="bold">) ] [, STABLE | UNSTABLE ] [, PARALLEL [ (</emphasis> <emphasis>numthreads </emphasis><emphasis role="bold">) ] ] [, ALGORITHM(</emphasis> <emphasis>name </emphasis><emphasis role="bold">) ] )</emphasis></para>
 
   <para><emphasis role="bold">LOOP(</emphasis><emphasis>
   dataset,</emphasis><emphasis role="bold"> </emphasis><emphasis>loopfilter,
-  loopcondition, loopbody </emphasis><emphasis
-  role="bold">)</emphasis></para>
+  loopcondition, loopbody </emphasis><emphasis role="bold">[, UNORDERED | ORDERED(</emphasis> <emphasis>bool </emphasis><emphasis role="bold">) ] [, STABLE | UNSTABLE ] [, PARALLEL [ (</emphasis> <emphasis>numthreads </emphasis><emphasis role="bold">) ] ] [, ALGORITHM(</emphasis> <emphasis>name </emphasis><emphasis role="bold">) ] )</emphasis></para>
 
   <informaltable colsep="1" frame="all" rowsep="1">
     <tgroup cols="2">
@@ -69,19 +61,6 @@
         </row>
 
         <row>
-          <entry><emphasis role="bold">PARALLEL</emphasis></entry>
-
-          <entry>Optional. Specifies parallel execution of loop iterations.
-          This option is available only on Roxie.</entry>
-        </row>
-
-        <row>
-          <entry><emphasis>iterations</emphasis></entry>
-
-          <entry>The number of parallel iterations.</entry>
-        </row>
-
-        <row>
           <entry><emphasis>loopfilter<indexterm>
               <primary>loopfilter</primary>
             </indexterm></emphasis></entry>
@@ -111,6 +90,51 @@
           set. This evaluation occurs during the iteration of the
           <emphasis>loopbody</emphasis>.</entry>
         </row>
+          <row>
+            <entry><emphasis role="bold">UNORDERED</emphasis></entry>
+
+            <entry>Optional. Specifies the output record order is not significant.</entry>
+          </row>
+          <row>
+            <entry><emphasis role="bold">ORDERED</emphasis></entry>
+
+            <entry>Specifies the significance of the output record order.</entry>
+          </row>
+          <row>
+            <entry><emphasis>bool</emphasis></entry>
+
+            <entry>When False, specifies the output record order is not significant. When True, specifies the default output record order.</entry>
+          </row>
+          <row>
+            <entry><emphasis role="bold">STABLE</emphasis></entry>
+
+            <entry>Optional. Specifies the input record order is significant.</entry>
+          </row>
+          <row>
+            <entry><emphasis role="bold">UNSTABLE</emphasis></entry>
+
+            <entry>Optional. Specifies the input record order is not significant.</entry>
+          </row>
+          <row>
+            <entry><emphasis role="bold">PARALLEL</emphasis></entry>
+
+            <entry>Optional. Try to evaluate this activity in parallel.</entry>
+          </row>
+          <row>
+            <entry><emphasis>numthreads</emphasis></entry>
+
+            <entry>Optional. Try to evaluate this activity using <emphasis>numthreads</emphasis> threads.</entry>
+          </row>
+          <row>
+            <entry><emphasis role="bold">ALGORITHM</emphasis></entry>
+
+            <entry>Optional. Override the algorithm used for this activity.</entry>
+          </row>
+          <row>
+            <entry><emphasis>name</emphasis></entry>
+
+            <entry>The algorithm to use for this activity. Must be from the list of supported algorithms for the SORT function's STABLE and UNSTABLE options.</entry>
+          </row>
 
         <row>
           <entry>Return:</entry>

docs/ECLLanguageReference/ECLR_mods/BltInFunc-MAX.xml

@@ -7,7 +7,7 @@
   <para><emphasis role="bold">MAX <indexterm>
       <primary>MAX function</primary>
     </indexterm>(</emphasis><emphasis>recordset, value </emphasis><emphasis
-  role="bold">[, KEYED ])</emphasis></para>
+  role="bold">[, KEYED ] </emphasis><emphasis role="bold">[, UNORDERED | ORDERED(</emphasis> <emphasis>bool </emphasis><emphasis role="bold">) ] [, STABLE | UNSTABLE ] [, PARALLEL [ (</emphasis> <emphasis>numthreads </emphasis><emphasis role="bold">) ] ] [, ALGORITHM(</emphasis> <emphasis>name </emphasis><emphasis role="bold">) ] )</emphasis></para>
 
   <para><emphasis
   role="bold">MAX(</emphasis><emphasis>valuelist</emphasis><emphasis
@@ -51,6 +51,51 @@
           <entry>A comma-delimited list of expressions to find the maximum
           value of. This may also be a SET of values.</entry>
         </row>
+          <row>
+            <entry><emphasis role="bold">UNORDERED</emphasis></entry>
+
+            <entry>Optional. Specifies the output record order is not significant.</entry>
+          </row>
+          <row>
+            <entry><emphasis role="bold">ORDERED</emphasis></entry>
+
+            <entry>Specifies the significance of the output record order.</entry>
+          </row>
+          <row>
+            <entry><emphasis>bool</emphasis></entry>
+
+            <entry>When False, specifies the output record order is not significant. When True, specifies the default output record order.</entry>
+          </row>
+          <row>
+            <entry><emphasis role="bold">STABLE</emphasis></entry>
+
+            <entry>Optional. Specifies the input record order is significant.</entry>
+          </row>
+          <row>
+            <entry><emphasis role="bold">UNSTABLE</emphasis></entry>
+
+            <entry>Optional. Specifies the input record order is not significant.</entry>
+          </row>
+          <row>
+            <entry><emphasis role="bold">PARALLEL</emphasis></entry>
+
+            <entry>Optional. Try to evaluate this activity in parallel.</entry>
+          </row>
+          <row>
+            <entry><emphasis>numthreads</emphasis></entry>
+
+            <entry>Optional. Try to evaluate this activity using <emphasis>numthreads</emphasis> threads.</entry>
+          </row>
+          <row>
+            <entry><emphasis role="bold">ALGORITHM</emphasis></entry>
+
+            <entry>Optional. Override the algorithm used for this activity.</entry>
+          </row>
+          <row>
+            <entry><emphasis>name</emphasis></entry>
+
+            <entry>The algorithm to use for this activity. Must be from the list of supported algorithms for the SORT function's STABLE and UNSTABLE options.</entry>
+          </row>
 
         <row>
           <entry>Return:</entry>

docs/ECLLanguageReference/ECLR_mods/BltInFunc-MERGE.xml

@@ -19,7 +19,7 @@
     </indexterm> ] [</emphasis><emphasis>, </emphasis><emphasis
   role="bold">LOCAL<indexterm>
       <primary>LOCAL</primary>
-    </indexterm> ] )</emphasis></para>
+    </indexterm> ] </emphasis><emphasis role="bold">[, UNORDERED | ORDERED(</emphasis> <emphasis>bool </emphasis><emphasis role="bold">) ] [, STABLE | UNSTABLE ] [, PARALLEL [ (</emphasis> <emphasis>numthreads </emphasis><emphasis role="bold">) ] ] [, ALGORITHM(</emphasis> <emphasis>name </emphasis><emphasis role="bold">) ] )</emphasis></para>
 
   <para><emphasis role="bold"></emphasis><emphasis
   role="bold">MERGE(</emphasis><emphasis>recordsetset ,
@@ -28,7 +28,7 @@
   role="bold">SORTED( </emphasis><emphasis>fieldlist</emphasis><emphasis
   role="bold"> ) [</emphasis><emphasis>, </emphasis><emphasis
   role="bold">DEDUP ] [</emphasis><emphasis>, </emphasis><emphasis
-  role="bold">LOCAL ] )</emphasis></para>
+  role="bold">LOCAL ] </emphasis><emphasis role="bold">[, UNORDERED | ORDERED(</emphasis> <emphasis>bool </emphasis><emphasis role="bold">) ] [, STABLE | UNSTABLE ] [, PARALLEL [ (</emphasis> <emphasis>numthreads </emphasis><emphasis role="bold">) ] ] [, ALGORITHM(</emphasis> <emphasis>name </emphasis><emphasis role="bold">) ] )</emphasis></para>
 
   <informaltable colsep="1" frame="all" rowsep="1">
     <tgroup cols="2">
@@ -81,6 +81,51 @@
           <entry>A SET ( [ds1,ds2,ds3] ) of the datasets or indexes to merge,
           which must all be in exactly the same format.</entry>
         </row>
+          <row>
+            <entry><emphasis role="bold">UNORDERED</emphasis></entry>
+
+            <entry>Optional. Specifies the output record order is not significant.</entry>
+          </row>
+          <row>
+            <entry><emphasis role="bold">ORDERED</emphasis></entry>
+
+            <entry>Specifies the significance of the output record order.</entry>
+          </row>
+          <row>
+            <entry><emphasis>bool</emphasis></entry>
+
+            <entry>When False, specifies the output record order is not significant. When True, specifies the default output record order.</entry>
+          </row>
+          <row>
+            <entry><emphasis role="bold">STABLE</emphasis></entry>
+
+            <entry>Optional. Specifies the input record order is significant.</entry>
+          </row>
+          <row>
+            <entry><emphasis role="bold">UNSTABLE</emphasis></entry>
+
+            <entry>Optional. Specifies the input record order is not significant.</entry>
+          </row>
+          <row>
+            <entry><emphasis role="bold">PARALLEL</emphasis></entry>
+
+            <entry>Optional. Try to evaluate this activity in parallel.</entry>
+          </row>
+          <row>
+            <entry><emphasis>numthreads</emphasis></entry>
+
+            <entry>Optional. Try to evaluate this activity using <emphasis>numthreads</emphasis> threads.</entry>
+          </row>
+          <row>
+            <entry><emphasis role="bold">ALGORITHM</emphasis></entry>
+
+            <entry>Optional. Override the algorithm used for this activity.</entry>
+          </row>
+          <row>
+            <entry><emphasis>name</emphasis></entry>
+
+            <entry>The algorithm to use for this activity. Must be from the list of supported algorithms for the SORT function's STABLE and UNSTABLE options.</entry>
+          </row>
 
         <row>
           <entry>Return:</entry>

docs/ECLLanguageReference/ECLR_mods/BltInFunc-MERGEJOIN.xml

@@ -15,7 +15,7 @@
   role="bold">) [</emphasis><emphasis>, jointype</emphasis><emphasis
   role="bold">] [, DEDUP<indexterm>
       <primary>DEDUP</primary>
-    </indexterm> ])</emphasis></para>
+    </indexterm> ] </emphasis><emphasis role="bold">[, UNORDERED | ORDERED(</emphasis> <emphasis>bool </emphasis><emphasis role="bold">) ] [, STABLE | UNSTABLE ] [, PARALLEL [ (</emphasis> <emphasis>numthreads </emphasis><emphasis role="bold">) ] ] [, ALGORITHM(</emphasis> <emphasis>name </emphasis><emphasis role="bold">) ] )</emphasis></para>
 
   <informaltable colsep="1" frame="all" rowsep="1">
     <tgroup cols="2">
@@ -69,6 +69,52 @@
           <entry>Optional. Specifies the output result set contains only
           unique records.</entry>
         </row>
+          <row>
+            <entry><emphasis role="bold">UNORDERED</emphasis></entry>
+
+            <entry>Optional. Specifies the output record order is not significant.</entry>
+          </row>
+          <row>
+            <entry><emphasis role="bold">ORDERED</emphasis></entry>
+
+            <entry>Specifies the significance of the output record order.</entry>
+          </row>
+          <row>
+            <entry><emphasis>bool</emphasis></entry>
+
+            <entry>When False, specifies the output record order is not significant. When True, specifies the default output record order.</entry>
+          </row>
+          <row>
+            <entry><emphasis role="bold">STABLE</emphasis></entry>
+
+            <entry>Optional. Specifies the input record order is significant.</entry>
+          </row>
+          <row>
+            <entry><emphasis role="bold">UNSTABLE</emphasis></entry>
+
+            <entry>Optional. Specifies the input record order is not significant.</entry>
+          </row>
+          <row>
+            <entry><emphasis role="bold">PARALLEL</emphasis></entry>
+
+            <entry>Optional. Try to evaluate this activity in parallel.</entry>
+          </row>
+          <row>
+            <entry><emphasis>numthreads</emphasis></entry>
+
+            <entry>Optional. Try to evaluate this activity using <emphasis>numthreads</emphasis> threads.</entry>
+          </row>
+          <row>
+            <entry><emphasis role="bold">ALGORITHM</emphasis></entry>
+
+            <entry>Optional. Override the algorithm used for this activity.</entry>
+          </row>
+          <row>
+            <entry><emphasis>name</emphasis></entry>
+
+            <entry>The algorithm to use for this activity. Must be from the list of supported algorithms for the SORT function's STABLE and UNSTABLE options.</entry>
+          </row>
+
       </tbody>
     </tgroup>
   </informaltable>

docs/ECLLanguageReference/ECLR_mods/BltInFunc-MIN.xml

@@ -11,7 +11,7 @@
     </indexterm>(</emphasis><emphasis>recordset, value </emphasis><emphasis
   role="bold">[, KEYED<indexterm>
       <primary>KEYED</primary>
-    </indexterm> ])</emphasis><emphasis role="bold"></emphasis></para>
+    </indexterm> ] </emphasis><emphasis role="bold">[, UNORDERED | ORDERED(</emphasis> <emphasis>bool </emphasis><emphasis role="bold">) ] [, STABLE | UNSTABLE ] [, PARALLEL [ (</emphasis> <emphasis>numthreads </emphasis><emphasis role="bold">) ] ] [, ALGORITHM(</emphasis> <emphasis>name </emphasis><emphasis role="bold">) ] )</emphasis></para>
 
   <para><emphasis
   role="bold">MIN(</emphasis><emphasis>valuelist</emphasis><emphasis
@@ -55,6 +55,51 @@
           <entry>A comma-delimited list of expressions to find the minimum
           value of. This may also be a SET of values.</entry>
         </row>
+          <row>
+            <entry><emphasis role="bold">UNORDERED</emphasis></entry>
+
+            <entry>Optional. Specifies the output record order is not significant.</entry>
+          </row>
+          <row>
+            <entry><emphasis role="bold">ORDERED</emphasis></entry>
+
+            <entry>Specifies the significance of the output record order.</entry>
+          </row>
+          <row>
+            <entry><emphasis>bool</emphasis></entry>
+
+            <entry>When False, specifies the output record order is not significant. When True, specifies the default output record order.</entry>
+          </row>
+          <row>
+            <entry><emphasis role="bold">STABLE</emphasis></entry>
+
+            <entry>Optional. Specifies the input record order is significant.</entry>
+          </row>
+          <row>
+            <entry><emphasis role="bold">UNSTABLE</emphasis></entry>
+
+            <entry>Optional. Specifies the input record order is not significant.</entry>
+          </row>
+          <row>
+            <entry><emphasis role="bold">PARALLEL</emphasis></entry>
+
+            <entry>Optional. Try to evaluate this activity in parallel.</entry>
+          </row>
+          <row>
+            <entry><emphasis>numthreads</emphasis></entry>
+
+            <entry>Optional. Try to evaluate this activity using <emphasis>numthreads</emphasis> threads.</entry>
+          </row>
+          <row>
+            <entry><emphasis role="bold">ALGORITHM</emphasis></entry>
+
+            <entry>Optional. Override the algorithm used for this activity.</entry>
+          </row>
+          <row>
+            <entry><emphasis>name</emphasis></entry>
+
+            <entry>The algorithm to use for this activity. Must be from the list of supported algorithms for the SORT function's STABLE and UNSTABLE options.</entry>
+          </row>
 
         <row>
           <entry>Return:</entry>

docs/ECLLanguageReference/ECLR_mods/BltInFunc-NORMALIZE.xml

@@ -9,14 +9,13 @@
     </indexterm><indexterm>
       <primary>NORMALIZE function</primary>
     </indexterm>(</emphasis><emphasis>recordset, expression, transform
-  </emphasis><emphasis role="bold">)</emphasis><emphasis
-  role="bold"></emphasis></para>
+  </emphasis> <emphasis role="bold">[, UNORDERED | ORDERED(</emphasis> <emphasis>bool </emphasis><emphasis role="bold">) ] [, STABLE | UNSTABLE ] [, PARALLEL [ (</emphasis> <emphasis>numthreads </emphasis><emphasis role="bold">) ] ] [, ALGORITHM(</emphasis> <emphasis>name </emphasis><emphasis role="bold">) ] )</emphasis></para>
 
   <para><emphasis role="bold">NORMALIZE(</emphasis><emphasis>recordset,
   </emphasis><emphasis role="bold">LEFT<indexterm>
       <primary>LEFT</primary>
     </indexterm>.</emphasis><emphasis>childdataset, transform
-  </emphasis><emphasis role="bold">)</emphasis></para>
+  </emphasis> <emphasis role="bold">[, UNORDERED | ORDERED(</emphasis> <emphasis>bool </emphasis><emphasis role="bold">) ] [, STABLE | UNSTABLE ] [, PARALLEL [ (</emphasis> <emphasis>numthreads </emphasis><emphasis role="bold">) ] ] [, ALGORITHM(</emphasis> <emphasis>name </emphasis><emphasis role="bold">) ] )</emphasis></para>
 
   <para><informaltable colsep="1" frame="all" rowsep="1">
       <tgroup cols="2">
@@ -51,6 +50,51 @@
             <entry>The field name of a child DATASET in the recordset. This
             must use the keyword LEFT as its qualifier.</entry>
           </row>
+          <row>
+            <entry><emphasis role="bold">UNORDERED</emphasis></entry>
+
+            <entry>Optional. Specifies the output record order is not significant.</entry>
+          </row>
+          <row>
+            <entry><emphasis role="bold">ORDERED</emphasis></entry>
+
+            <entry>Specifies the significance of the output record order.</entry>
+          </row>
+          <row>
+            <entry><emphasis>bool</emphasis></entry>
+
+            <entry>When False, specifies the output record order is not significant. When True, specifies the default output record order.</entry>
+          </row>
+          <row>
+            <entry><emphasis role="bold">STABLE</emphasis></entry>
+
+            <entry>Optional. Specifies the input record order is significant.</entry>
+          </row>
+          <row>
+            <entry><emphasis role="bold">UNSTABLE</emphasis></entry>
+
+            <entry>Optional. Specifies the input record order is not significant.</entry>
+          </row>
+          <row>
+            <entry><emphasis role="bold">PARALLEL</emphasis></entry>
+
+            <entry>Optional. Try to evaluate this activity in parallel.</entry>
+          </row>
+          <row>
+            <entry><emphasis>numthreads</emphasis></entry>
+
+            <entry>Optional. Try to evaluate this activity using <emphasis>numthreads</emphasis> threads.</entry>
+          </row>
+          <row>
+            <entry><emphasis role="bold">ALGORITHM</emphasis></entry>
+
+            <entry>Optional. Override the algorithm used for this activity.</entry>
+          </row>
+          <row>
+            <entry><emphasis>name</emphasis></entry>
+
+            <entry>The algorithm to use for this activity. Must be from the list of supported algorithms for the SORT function's STABLE and UNSTABLE options.</entry>
+          </row>
 
           <row>
             <entry>Return:</entry>

docs/ECLLanguageReference/ECLR_mods/BltInFunc-ORDERED.xml

@@ -8,7 +8,7 @@
   :=<emphasis role="bold"> ] ORDERED<indexterm>
       <primary>ORDERED</primary>
     </indexterm><indexterm>
-      <primary>ORDERED function</primary>
+      <primary>ORDERED action</primary>
     </indexterm>(</emphasis><emphasis> actionlist </emphasis><emphasis
   role="bold">)</emphasis></para>
 

docs/ECLLanguageReference/ECLR_mods/BltInFunc-OUTPUT.xml

@@ -17,7 +17,7 @@
   role="bold">[</emphasis><emphasis>,</emphasis><emphasis role="bold">
   NOXPATH<indexterm>
       <primary>NOXPATH</primary>
-    </indexterm> ] );</emphasis></para>
+    </indexterm> ] </emphasis><emphasis role="bold">[, UNORDERED | ORDERED(</emphasis> <emphasis>bool </emphasis><emphasis role="bold">) ] [, STABLE | UNSTABLE ] [, PARALLEL [ (</emphasis> <emphasis>numthreads </emphasis><emphasis role="bold">) ] ] [, ALGORITHM(</emphasis> <emphasis>name </emphasis><emphasis role="bold">) ] );</emphasis></para>
 
   <para><emphasis role="bold">[</emphasis><emphasis>attr</emphasis>
   :=<emphasis role="bold"> ]
@@ -31,7 +31,7 @@
   role="bold">[</emphasis><emphasis>csvfileoptions </emphasis><emphasis
   role="bold"> ] </emphasis><emphasis
   role="bold">[</emphasis><emphasis>,</emphasis><emphasis role="bold"> NOXPATH
-  ] );</emphasis></para>
+  ] </emphasis><emphasis role="bold">[, UNORDERED | ORDERED(</emphasis> <emphasis>bool </emphasis><emphasis role="bold">) ] [, STABLE | UNSTABLE ] [, PARALLEL [ (</emphasis> <emphasis>numthreads </emphasis><emphasis role="bold">) ] ] [, ALGORITHM(</emphasis> <emphasis>name </emphasis><emphasis role="bold">) ] );</emphasis></para>
 
   <para><emphasis role="bold">[</emphasis><emphasis>attr</emphasis>
   :=<emphasis role="bold"> ]
@@ -45,7 +45,7 @@
   role="bold">[</emphasis><emphasis>xmlfileoptions </emphasis><emphasis
   role="bold"> ] </emphasis><emphasis
   role="bold">[</emphasis><emphasis>,</emphasis><emphasis role="bold"> NOXPATH
-  ] );</emphasis></para>
+  ] </emphasis><emphasis role="bold">[, UNORDERED | ORDERED(</emphasis> <emphasis>bool </emphasis><emphasis role="bold">) ] [, STABLE | UNSTABLE ] [, PARALLEL [ (</emphasis> <emphasis>numthreads </emphasis><emphasis role="bold">) ] ] [, ALGORITHM(</emphasis> <emphasis>name </emphasis><emphasis role="bold">) ] );</emphasis></para>
 
   <para><emphasis role="bold">[</emphasis><emphasis>attr</emphasis>
   :=<emphasis role="bold"> ]
@@ -59,7 +59,7 @@
   role="bold">[</emphasis><emphasis>jsonfileoptions </emphasis><emphasis
   role="bold"> ] </emphasis><emphasis
   role="bold">[</emphasis><emphasis>,</emphasis><emphasis role="bold"> NOXPATH
-  ] );</emphasis></para>
+  ] <emphasis role="bold">[, UNORDERED | ORDERED(</emphasis> <emphasis>bool </emphasis><emphasis role="bold">) ] [, STABLE | UNSTABLE ] [, PARALLEL [ (</emphasis> <emphasis>numthreads </emphasis><emphasis role="bold">) ] ] [, ALGORITHM(</emphasis> <emphasis>name </emphasis><emphasis role="bold">) ] );</emphasis></emphasis></para>
 
   <para><emphasis role="bold">[</emphasis><emphasis>attr</emphasis>
   :=<emphasis role="bold"> ]
@@ -69,7 +69,7 @@
       <primary>PIPE</primary>
     </indexterm>(</emphasis><emphasis> pipeoptions </emphasis><emphasis
   role="bold">[</emphasis><emphasis>,</emphasis><emphasis role="bold"> NOXPATH
-  ] );</emphasis></para>
+  ] </emphasis><emphasis role="bold">[, UNORDERED | ORDERED(</emphasis> <emphasis>bool </emphasis><emphasis role="bold">) ] [, STABLE | UNSTABLE ] [, PARALLEL [ (</emphasis> <emphasis>numthreads </emphasis><emphasis role="bold">) ] ] [, ALGORITHM(</emphasis> <emphasis>name </emphasis><emphasis role="bold">) ] );</emphasis></para>
 
   <para><emphasis role="bold">[</emphasis><emphasis>attr</emphasis>
   :=<emphasis role="bold"> ]
@@ -85,7 +85,7 @@
       <primary>ALL</primary>
     </indexterm>] </emphasis><emphasis
   role="bold">[</emphasis><emphasis>,</emphasis><emphasis role="bold"> NOXPATH
-  ] );</emphasis></para>
+  ] </emphasis><emphasis role="bold">[, UNORDERED | ORDERED(</emphasis> <emphasis>bool </emphasis><emphasis role="bold">) ] [, STABLE | UNSTABLE ] [, PARALLEL [ (</emphasis> <emphasis>numthreads </emphasis><emphasis role="bold">) ] ] [, ALGORITHM(</emphasis> <emphasis>name </emphasis><emphasis role="bold">) ] );</emphasis></para>
 
   <para><emphasis role="bold">[</emphasis><emphasis>attr</emphasis>
   :=<emphasis role="bold"> ] OUTPUT(</emphasis><emphasis> expression
@@ -93,7 +93,7 @@
   role="bold"> NAMED(</emphasis><emphasis> name </emphasis><emphasis
   role="bold">) ] </emphasis><emphasis
   role="bold">[</emphasis><emphasis>,</emphasis><emphasis role="bold"> NOXPATH
-  ] );</emphasis></para>
+  ] </emphasis><emphasis role="bold">[, UNORDERED | ORDERED(</emphasis> <emphasis>bool </emphasis><emphasis role="bold">) ] [, STABLE | UNSTABLE ] [, PARALLEL [ (</emphasis> <emphasis>numthreads </emphasis><emphasis role="bold">) ] ] [, ALGORITHM(</emphasis> <emphasis>name </emphasis><emphasis role="bold">) ] );</emphasis></para>
 
   <para><emphasis role="bold">[</emphasis><emphasis>attr</emphasis>
   :=<emphasis role="bold"> ] OUTPUT(</emphasis><emphasis> recordset
@@ -101,7 +101,7 @@
       <primary>THOR</primary>
     </indexterm> </emphasis><emphasis
   role="bold">[</emphasis><emphasis>,</emphasis><emphasis role="bold"> NOXPATH
-  ] );</emphasis></para>
+  ] </emphasis><emphasis role="bold">[, UNORDERED | ORDERED(</emphasis> <emphasis>bool </emphasis><emphasis role="bold">) ] [, STABLE | UNSTABLE ] [, PARALLEL [ (</emphasis> <emphasis>numthreads </emphasis><emphasis role="bold">) ] ] [, ALGORITHM(</emphasis> <emphasis>name </emphasis><emphasis role="bold">) ] );</emphasis></para>
 
   <para><informaltable colsep="1" frame="all" rowsep="1">
       <tgroup cols="2">
@@ -166,6 +166,51 @@
             output, so that XPATHs that were meant only for xml or json input
             can be ignored for output.</entry>
           </row>
+          <row>
+            <entry><emphasis role="bold">UNORDERED</emphasis></entry>
+
+            <entry>Optional. Specifies the output record order is not significant.</entry>
+          </row>
+          <row>
+            <entry><emphasis role="bold">ORDERED</emphasis></entry>
+
+            <entry>Specifies the significance of the output record order.</entry>
+          </row>
+          <row>
+            <entry><emphasis>bool</emphasis></entry>
+
+            <entry>When False, specifies the output record order is not significant. When True, specifies the default output record order.</entry>
+          </row>
+          <row>
+            <entry><emphasis role="bold">STABLE</emphasis></entry>
+
+            <entry>Optional. Specifies the input record order is significant.</entry>
+          </row>
+          <row>
+            <entry><emphasis role="bold">UNSTABLE</emphasis></entry>
+
+            <entry>Optional. Specifies the input record order is not significant.</entry>
+          </row>
+          <row>
+            <entry><emphasis role="bold">PARALLEL</emphasis></entry>
+
+            <entry>Optional. Try to evaluate this activity in parallel.</entry>
+          </row>
+          <row>
+            <entry><emphasis>numthreads</emphasis></entry>
+
+            <entry>Optional. Try to evaluate this activity using <emphasis>numthreads</emphasis> threads.</entry>
+          </row>
+          <row>
+            <entry><emphasis role="bold">ALGORITHM</emphasis></entry>
+
+            <entry>Optional. Override the algorithm used for this activity.</entry>
+          </row>
+          <row>
+            <entry><emphasis>name</emphasis></entry>
+
+            <entry>The algorithm to use for this activity. Must be from the list of supported algorithms for the SORT function's STABLE and UNSTABLE options.</entry>
+          </row>
 
           <row>
             <entry><emphasis role="bold">CSV</emphasis></entry>

docs/ECLLanguageReference/ECLR_mods/BltInFunc-PARSE.xml

@@ -21,7 +21,7 @@
   </emphasis><emphasis role="bold">XML<indexterm>
       <primary>XML</primary>
     </indexterm>( </emphasis><emphasis>path </emphasis><emphasis role="bold">)
-  )</emphasis></para>
+  </emphasis> <emphasis role="bold">[, UNORDERED | ORDERED(</emphasis> <emphasis>bool </emphasis><emphasis role="bold">) ] [, STABLE | UNSTABLE ] [, PARALLEL [ (</emphasis> <emphasis>numthreads </emphasis><emphasis role="bold">) ] ] [, ALGORITHM(</emphasis> <emphasis>name </emphasis><emphasis role="bold">) ] )</emphasis></para>
 
   <para><informaltable colsep="1" frame="all" rowsep="1">
       <tgroup cols="2">
@@ -90,6 +90,51 @@
             <entry>A string constant containing the XPATH to the tag that
             delimits the XML data in the dataset.</entry>
           </row>
+          <row>
+            <entry><emphasis role="bold">UNORDERED</emphasis></entry>
+
+            <entry>Optional. Specifies the output record order is not significant.</entry>
+          </row>
+          <row>
+            <entry><emphasis role="bold">ORDERED</emphasis></entry>
+
+            <entry>Specifies the significance of the output record order.</entry>
+          </row>
+          <row>
+            <entry><emphasis>bool</emphasis></entry>
+
+            <entry>When False, specifies the output record order is not significant. When True, specifies the default output record order.</entry>
+          </row>
+          <row>
+            <entry><emphasis role="bold">STABLE</emphasis></entry>
+
+            <entry>Optional. Specifies the input record order is significant.</entry>
+          </row>
+          <row>
+            <entry><emphasis role="bold">UNSTABLE</emphasis></entry>
+
+            <entry>Optional. Specifies the input record order is not significant.</entry>
+          </row>
+          <row>
+            <entry><emphasis role="bold">PARALLEL</emphasis></entry>
+
+            <entry>Optional. Try to evaluate this activity in parallel.</entry>
+          </row>
+          <row>
+            <entry><emphasis>numthreads</emphasis></entry>
+
+            <entry>Optional. Try to evaluate this activity using <emphasis>numthreads</emphasis> threads.</entry>
+          </row>
+          <row>
+            <entry><emphasis role="bold">ALGORITHM</emphasis></entry>
+
+            <entry>Optional. Override the algorithm used for this activity.</entry>
+          </row>
+          <row>
+            <entry><emphasis>name</emphasis></entry>
+
+            <entry>The algorithm to use for this activity. Must be from the list of supported algorithms for the SORT function's STABLE and UNSTABLE options.</entry>
+          </row>
 
           <row>
             <entry>Return:</entry>

docs/ECLLanguageReference/ECLR_mods/BltInFunc-PIPE.xml

@@ -26,7 +26,7 @@
     </indexterm>( CSV | XML ) ] [</emphasis>,<emphasis role="bold">
   GROUP<indexterm>
       <primary>GROUP</primary>
-    </indexterm>] )</emphasis></para>
+    </indexterm>] </emphasis><emphasis role="bold">[, UNORDERED | ORDERED(</emphasis> <emphasis>bool </emphasis><emphasis role="bold">) ] [, STABLE | UNSTABLE ] [, PARALLEL [ (</emphasis> <emphasis>numthreads </emphasis><emphasis role="bold">) ] ] [, ALGORITHM(</emphasis> <emphasis>name </emphasis><emphasis role="bold">) ] )</emphasis></para>
 
   <para><informaltable colsep="1" frame="all" rowsep="1">
       <tgroup cols="2">
@@ -96,6 +96,51 @@
             <entry>Optional. Specifies each result record is generated in a
             separate GROUP (only if REPEAT is specified).</entry>
           </row>
+          <row>
+            <entry><emphasis role="bold">UNORDERED</emphasis></entry>
+
+            <entry>Optional. Specifies the output record order is not significant.</entry>
+          </row>
+          <row>
+            <entry><emphasis role="bold">ORDERED</emphasis></entry>
+
+            <entry>Specifies the significance of the output record order.</entry>
+          </row>
+          <row>
+            <entry><emphasis>bool</emphasis></entry>
+
+            <entry>When False, specifies the output record order is not significant. When True, specifies the default output record order.</entry>
+          </row>
+          <row>
+            <entry><emphasis role="bold">STABLE</emphasis></entry>
+
+            <entry>Optional. Specifies the input record order is significant.</entry>
+          </row>
+          <row>
+            <entry><emphasis role="bold">UNSTABLE</emphasis></entry>
+
+            <entry>Optional. Specifies the input record order is not significant.</entry>
+          </row>
+          <row>
+            <entry><emphasis role="bold">PARALLEL</emphasis></entry>
+
+            <entry>Optional. Try to evaluate this activity in parallel.</entry>
+          </row>
+          <row>
+            <entry><emphasis>numthreads</emphasis></entry>
+
+            <entry>Optional. Try to evaluate this activity using <emphasis>numthreads</emphasis> threads.</entry>
+          </row>
+          <row>
+            <entry><emphasis role="bold">ALGORITHM</emphasis></entry>
+
+            <entry>Optional. Override the algorithm used for this activity.</entry>
+          </row>
+          <row>
+            <entry><emphasis>name</emphasis></entry>
+
+            <entry>The algorithm to use for this activity. Must be from the list of supported algorithms for the SORT function's STABLE and UNSTABLE options.</entry>
+          </row>
 
           <row>
             <entry>Return:</entry>

docs/ECLLanguageReference/ECLR_mods/BltInFunc-PROCESS.xml

@@ -12,7 +12,7 @@
   role="bold"> </emphasis><emphasis>datasettransform, rowtransform
   </emphasis><emphasis role="bold">[, LOCAL<indexterm>
       <primary>LOCAL</primary>
-    </indexterm> ] )</emphasis></para>
+    </indexterm> ] </emphasis><emphasis role="bold">[, UNORDERED | ORDERED(</emphasis> <emphasis>bool </emphasis><emphasis role="bold">) ] [, STABLE | UNSTABLE ] [, PARALLEL [ (</emphasis> <emphasis>numthreads </emphasis><emphasis role="bold">) ] ] [, ALGORITHM(</emphasis> <emphasis>name </emphasis><emphasis role="bold">) ] )</emphasis></para>
 
   <para><informaltable colsep="1" frame="all" rowsep="1">
       <tgroup cols="2">
@@ -56,6 +56,51 @@
             with all other nodes to acquire data; the operation maintains the
             distribution of any previous DISTRIBUTE.</entry>
           </row>
+          <row>
+            <entry><emphasis role="bold">UNORDERED</emphasis></entry>
+
+            <entry>Optional. Specifies the output record order is not significant.</entry>
+          </row>
+          <row>
+            <entry><emphasis role="bold">ORDERED</emphasis></entry>
+
+            <entry>Specifies the significance of the output record order.</entry>
+          </row>
+          <row>
+            <entry><emphasis>bool</emphasis></entry>
+
+            <entry>When False, specifies the output record order is not significant. When True, specifies the default output record order.</entry>
+          </row>
+          <row>
+            <entry><emphasis role="bold">STABLE</emphasis></entry>
+
+            <entry>Optional. Specifies the input record order is significant.</entry>
+          </row>
+          <row>
+            <entry><emphasis role="bold">UNSTABLE</emphasis></entry>
+
+            <entry>Optional. Specifies the input record order is not significant.</entry>
+          </row>
+          <row>
+            <entry><emphasis role="bold">PARALLEL</emphasis></entry>
+
+            <entry>Optional. Try to evaluate this activity in parallel.</entry>
+          </row>
+          <row>
+            <entry><emphasis>numthreads</emphasis></entry>
+
+            <entry>Optional. Try to evaluate this activity using <emphasis>numthreads</emphasis> threads.</entry>
+          </row>
+          <row>
+            <entry><emphasis role="bold">ALGORITHM</emphasis></entry>
+
+            <entry>Optional. Override the algorithm used for this activity.</entry>
+          </row>
+          <row>
+            <entry><emphasis>name</emphasis></entry>
+
+            <entry>The algorithm to use for this activity. Must be from the list of supported algorithms for the SORT function's STABLE and UNSTABLE options.</entry>
+          </row>
 
           <row>
             <entry>Return:</entry>

docs/ECLLanguageReference/ECLR_mods/BltInFunc-PROJECT.xml

@@ -18,14 +18,14 @@
       <primary>KEYED</primary>
     </indexterm> ] [, LOCAL<indexterm>
       <primary>LOCAL</primary>
-    </indexterm> ])</emphasis><emphasis role="bold"></emphasis></para>
+    </indexterm> ] </emphasis><emphasis role="bold">[, UNORDERED | ORDERED(</emphasis> <emphasis>bool </emphasis><emphasis role="bold">) ] [, STABLE | UNSTABLE ] [, PARALLEL [ (</emphasis> <emphasis>numthreads </emphasis><emphasis role="bold">) ] ] [, ALGORITHM(</emphasis> <emphasis>name </emphasis><emphasis role="bold">) ] )</emphasis></para>
 
   <para><emphasis role="bold">PROJECT(</emphasis><emphasis> recordset, record
   </emphasis><emphasis role="bold">[, PREFETCH<indexterm>
       <primary>PREFETCH</primary>
     </indexterm> [ (</emphasis><emphasis>lookahead </emphasis><emphasis
   role="bold">[, PARALLEL]) ] ]</emphasis><emphasis role="bold"> [, KEYED ] [,
-  LOCAL ])</emphasis></para>
+  LOCAL ] </emphasis><emphasis role="bold">[, UNORDERED | ORDERED(</emphasis> <emphasis>bool </emphasis><emphasis role="bold">) ] [, STABLE | UNSTABLE ] [, PARALLEL [ (</emphasis> <emphasis>numthreads </emphasis><emphasis role="bold">) ] ] [, ALGORITHM(</emphasis> <emphasis>name </emphasis><emphasis role="bold">) ] )</emphasis></para>
 
   <para><informaltable colsep="1" frame="all" rowsep="1">
       <tgroup cols="2">
@@ -98,6 +98,51 @@
                 <primary>RECORD structure</primary>
               </indexterm> to use for each record in the recordset.</entry>
           </row>
+          <row>
+            <entry><emphasis role="bold">UNORDERED</emphasis></entry>
+
+            <entry>Optional. Specifies the output record order is not significant.</entry>
+          </row>
+          <row>
+            <entry><emphasis role="bold">ORDERED</emphasis></entry>
+
+            <entry>Specifies the significance of the output record order.</entry>
+          </row>
+          <row>
+            <entry><emphasis>bool</emphasis></entry>
+
+            <entry>When False, specifies the output record order is not significant. When True, specifies the default output record order.</entry>
+          </row>
+          <row>
+            <entry><emphasis role="bold">STABLE</emphasis></entry>
+
+            <entry>Optional. Specifies the input record order is significant.</entry>
+          </row>
+          <row>
+            <entry><emphasis role="bold">UNSTABLE</emphasis></entry>
+
+            <entry>Optional. Specifies the input record order is not significant.</entry>
+          </row>
+          <row>
+            <entry><emphasis role="bold">PARALLEL</emphasis></entry>
+
+            <entry>Optional. Try to evaluate this activity in parallel.</entry>
+          </row>
+          <row>
+            <entry><emphasis>numthreads</emphasis></entry>
+
+            <entry>Optional. Try to evaluate this activity using <emphasis>numthreads</emphasis> threads.</entry>
+          </row>
+          <row>
+            <entry><emphasis role="bold">ALGORITHM</emphasis></entry>
+
+            <entry>Optional. Override the algorithm used for this activity.</entry>
+          </row>
+          <row>
+            <entry><emphasis>name</emphasis></entry>
+
+            <entry>The algorithm to use for this activity. Must be from the list of supported algorithms for the SORT function's STABLE and UNSTABLE options.</entry>
+          </row>
 
           <row>
             <entry>Return:</entry>

docs/ECLLanguageReference/ECLR_mods/BltInFunc-RANGE.xml

@@ -9,7 +9,7 @@
     </indexterm><indexterm>
       <primary>RANGE function</primary>
     </indexterm>( </emphasis><emphasis>setofdatasets,
-  setofintegers</emphasis><emphasis role="bold"> )</emphasis></para>
+  setofintegers</emphasis> <emphasis role="bold">[, UNORDERED | ORDERED(</emphasis> <emphasis>bool </emphasis><emphasis role="bold">) ] [, STABLE | UNSTABLE ] [, PARALLEL [ (</emphasis> <emphasis>numthreads </emphasis><emphasis role="bold">) ] ] [, ALGORITHM(</emphasis> <emphasis>name </emphasis><emphasis role="bold">) ] )</emphasis></para>
 
   <para><informaltable colsep="1" frame="all" rowsep="1">
       <tgroup cols="2">
@@ -29,6 +29,51 @@
 
             <entry>A set of integers.</entry>
           </row>
+          <row>
+            <entry><emphasis role="bold">UNORDERED</emphasis></entry>
+
+            <entry>Optional. Specifies the output record order is not significant.</entry>
+          </row>
+          <row>
+            <entry><emphasis role="bold">ORDERED</emphasis></entry>
+
+            <entry>Specifies the significance of the output record order.</entry>
+          </row>
+          <row>
+            <entry><emphasis>bool</emphasis></entry>
+
+            <entry>When False, specifies the output record order is not significant. When True, specifies the default output record order.</entry>
+          </row>
+          <row>
+            <entry><emphasis role="bold">STABLE</emphasis></entry>
+
+            <entry>Optional. Specifies the input record order is significant.</entry>
+          </row>
+          <row>
+            <entry><emphasis role="bold">UNSTABLE</emphasis></entry>
+
+            <entry>Optional. Specifies the input record order is not significant.</entry>
+          </row>
+          <row>
+            <entry><emphasis role="bold">PARALLEL</emphasis></entry>
+
+            <entry>Optional. Try to evaluate this activity in parallel.</entry>
+          </row>
+          <row>
+            <entry><emphasis>numthreads</emphasis></entry>
+
+            <entry>Optional. Try to evaluate this activity using <emphasis>numthreads</emphasis> threads.</entry>
+          </row>
+          <row>
+            <entry><emphasis role="bold">ALGORITHM</emphasis></entry>
+
+            <entry>Optional. Override the algorithm used for this activity.</entry>
+          </row>
+          <row>
+            <entry><emphasis>name</emphasis></entry>
+
+            <entry>The algorithm to use for this activity. Must be from the list of supported algorithms for the SORT function's STABLE and UNSTABLE options.</entry>
+          </row>
 
           <row>
             <entry>Return:</entry>

docs/ECLLanguageReference/ECLR_mods/BltInFunc-REGROUP.xml

@@ -8,8 +8,7 @@
       <primary>REGROUP</primary>
     </indexterm><indexterm>
       <primary>REGROUP function</primary>
-    </indexterm>(</emphasis><emphasis>recset,…,recset</emphasis><emphasis
-  role="bold">)</emphasis></para>
+    </indexterm>(</emphasis><emphasis>recset,…,recset</emphasis> <emphasis role="bold">[, UNORDERED | ORDERED(</emphasis> <emphasis>bool </emphasis><emphasis role="bold">) ] [, STABLE | UNSTABLE ] [, PARALLEL [ (</emphasis> <emphasis>numthreads </emphasis><emphasis role="bold">) ] ] [, ALGORITHM(</emphasis> <emphasis>name </emphasis><emphasis role="bold">) ] )</emphasis></para>
 
   <para><informaltable colsep="1" frame="all" rowsep="1">
       <tgroup cols="2">
@@ -24,6 +23,51 @@
             <entry>A grouped set of records. Each recset must be of exactly
             the same type and must contain the same number of groups.</entry>
           </row>
+          <row>
+            <entry><emphasis role="bold">UNORDERED</emphasis></entry>
+
+            <entry>Optional. Specifies the output record order is not significant.</entry>
+          </row>
+          <row>
+            <entry><emphasis role="bold">ORDERED</emphasis></entry>
+
+            <entry>Specifies the significance of the output record order.</entry>
+          </row>
+          <row>
+            <entry><emphasis>bool</emphasis></entry>
+
+            <entry>When False, specifies the output record order is not significant. When True, specifies the default output record order.</entry>
+          </row>
+          <row>
+            <entry><emphasis role="bold">STABLE</emphasis></entry>
+
+            <entry>Optional. Specifies the input record order is significant.</entry>
+          </row>
+          <row>
+            <entry><emphasis role="bold">UNSTABLE</emphasis></entry>
+
+            <entry>Optional. Specifies the input record order is not significant.</entry>
+          </row>
+          <row>
+            <entry><emphasis role="bold">PARALLEL</emphasis></entry>
+
+            <entry>Optional. Try to evaluate this activity in parallel.</entry>
+          </row>
+          <row>
+            <entry><emphasis>numthreads</emphasis></entry>
+
+            <entry>Optional. Try to evaluate this activity using <emphasis>numthreads</emphasis> threads.</entry>
+          </row>
+          <row>
+            <entry><emphasis role="bold">ALGORITHM</emphasis></entry>
+
+            <entry>Optional. Override the algorithm used for this activity.</entry>
+          </row>
+          <row>
+            <entry><emphasis>name</emphasis></entry>
+
+            <entry>The algorithm to use for this activity. Must be from the list of supported algorithms for the SORT function's STABLE and UNSTABLE options.</entry>
+          </row>
 
           <row>
             <entry>Return:</entry>

docs/ECLLanguageReference/ECLR_mods/BltInFunc-ROLLUP.xml

@@ -11,17 +11,16 @@
     </indexterm>(</emphasis><emphasis>recordset, condition, transform
   </emphasis><emphasis role="bold">[, LOCAL<indexterm>
       <primary>LOCAL</primary>
-    </indexterm>] )</emphasis></para>
+    </indexterm>] </emphasis><emphasis role="bold">[, UNORDERED | ORDERED(</emphasis> <emphasis>bool </emphasis><emphasis role="bold">) ] [, STABLE | UNSTABLE ] [, PARALLEL [ (</emphasis> <emphasis>numthreads </emphasis><emphasis role="bold">) ] ] [, ALGORITHM(</emphasis> <emphasis>name </emphasis><emphasis role="bold">) ] )</emphasis></para>
 
   <para><emphasis role="bold">ROLLUP(</emphasis><emphasis>recordset,
   transform, fieldlist </emphasis><emphasis role="bold">[, LOCAL]
-  )</emphasis></para>
+  [, UNORDERED | ORDERED(</emphasis> <emphasis>bool </emphasis><emphasis role="bold">) ] [, STABLE | UNSTABLE ] [, PARALLEL [ (</emphasis> <emphasis>numthreads </emphasis><emphasis role="bold">) ] ] [, ALGORITHM(</emphasis> <emphasis>name </emphasis><emphasis role="bold">) ] )</emphasis></para>
 
   <para><emphasis role="bold">ROLLUP(</emphasis><emphasis>recordset,
   </emphasis><emphasis role="bold">GROUP</emphasis><emphasis><indexterm>
       <primary>GROUP</primary>
-    </indexterm>, transform </emphasis><emphasis role="bold">
-  )</emphasis></para>
+    </indexterm>, transform </emphasis><emphasis role="bold">[, UNORDERED | ORDERED(</emphasis> <emphasis>bool </emphasis><emphasis role="bold">) ] [, STABLE | UNSTABLE ] [, PARALLEL [ (</emphasis> <emphasis>numthreads </emphasis><emphasis role="bold">) ] ] [, ALGORITHM(</emphasis> <emphasis>name </emphasis><emphasis role="bold">) ] )</emphasis></para>
 
   <para><informaltable colsep="1" frame="all" rowsep="1">
       <tgroup cols="2">
@@ -79,6 +78,51 @@
             the ROLLUP operation will produce a single output record for each
             group. If this is not the case, an error occurs.</entry>
           </row>
+          <row>
+            <entry><emphasis role="bold">UNORDERED</emphasis></entry>
+
+            <entry>Optional. Specifies the output record order is not significant.</entry>
+          </row>
+          <row>
+            <entry><emphasis role="bold">ORDERED</emphasis></entry>
+
+            <entry>Specifies the significance of the output record order.</entry>
+          </row>
+          <row>
+            <entry><emphasis>bool</emphasis></entry>
+
+            <entry>When False, specifies the output record order is not significant. When True, specifies the default output record order.</entry>
+          </row>
+          <row>
+            <entry><emphasis role="bold">STABLE</emphasis></entry>
+
+            <entry>Optional. Specifies the input record order is significant.</entry>
+          </row>
+          <row>
+            <entry><emphasis role="bold">UNSTABLE</emphasis></entry>
+
+            <entry>Optional. Specifies the input record order is not significant.</entry>
+          </row>
+          <row>
+            <entry><emphasis role="bold">PARALLEL</emphasis></entry>
+
+            <entry>Optional. Try to evaluate this activity in parallel.</entry>
+          </row>
+          <row>
+            <entry><emphasis>numthreads</emphasis></entry>
+
+            <entry>Optional. Try to evaluate this activity using <emphasis>numthreads</emphasis> threads.</entry>
+          </row>
+          <row>
+            <entry><emphasis role="bold">ALGORITHM</emphasis></entry>
+
+            <entry>Optional. Override the algorithm used for this activity.</entry>
+          </row>
+          <row>
+            <entry><emphasis>name</emphasis></entry>
+
+            <entry>The algorithm to use for this activity. Must be from the list of supported algorithms for the SORT function's STABLE and UNSTABLE options.</entry>
+          </row>
 
           <row>
             <entry>Return:</entry>

docs/ECLLanguageReference/ECLR_mods/BltInFunc-SAMPLE.xml

@@ -10,7 +10,7 @@
       <primary>SAMPLE function</primary>
     </indexterm>(</emphasis><emphasis>recordset, interval </emphasis><emphasis
   role="bold">[</emphasis><emphasis>, which </emphasis><emphasis
-  role="bold">])</emphasis></para>
+  role="bold">] </emphasis><emphasis role="bold">[, UNORDERED | ORDERED(</emphasis> <emphasis>bool </emphasis><emphasis role="bold">) ] [, STABLE | UNSTABLE ] [, PARALLEL [ (</emphasis> <emphasis>numthreads </emphasis><emphasis role="bold">) ] ] [, ALGORITHM(</emphasis> <emphasis>name </emphasis><emphasis role="bold">) ] )</emphasis></para>
 
   <para><informaltable colsep="1" frame="all" rowsep="1">
       <tgroup cols="2">
@@ -40,6 +40,51 @@
             sample set to return. This is used to obtain multiple
             non-overlapping samples from the same recordset.</entry>
           </row>
+          <row>
+            <entry><emphasis role="bold">UNORDERED</emphasis></entry>
+
+            <entry>Optional. Specifies the output record order is not significant.</entry>
+          </row>
+          <row>
+            <entry><emphasis role="bold">ORDERED</emphasis></entry>
+
+            <entry>Specifies the significance of the output record order.</entry>
+          </row>
+          <row>
+            <entry><emphasis>bool</emphasis></entry>
+
+            <entry>When False, specifies the output record order is not significant. When True, specifies the default output record order.</entry>
+          </row>
+          <row>
+            <entry><emphasis role="bold">STABLE</emphasis></entry>
+
+            <entry>Optional. Specifies the input record order is significant.</entry>
+          </row>
+          <row>
+            <entry><emphasis role="bold">UNSTABLE</emphasis></entry>
+
+            <entry>Optional. Specifies the input record order is not significant.</entry>
+          </row>
+          <row>
+            <entry><emphasis role="bold">PARALLEL</emphasis></entry>
+
+            <entry>Optional. Try to evaluate this activity in parallel.</entry>
+          </row>
+          <row>
+            <entry><emphasis>numthreads</emphasis></entry>
+
+            <entry>Optional. Try to evaluate this activity using <emphasis>numthreads</emphasis> threads.</entry>
+          </row>
+          <row>
+            <entry><emphasis role="bold">ALGORITHM</emphasis></entry>
+
+            <entry>Optional. Override the algorithm used for this activity.</entry>
+          </row>
+          <row>
+            <entry><emphasis>name</emphasis></entry>
+
+            <entry>The algorithm to use for this activity. Must be from the list of supported algorithms for the SORT function's STABLE and UNSTABLE options.</entry>
+          </row>
 
           <row>
             <entry>Return:</entry>

docs/ECLLanguageReference/ECLR_mods/BltInFunc-SET.xml

@@ -8,8 +8,12 @@
       <primary>SET</primary>
     </indexterm><indexterm>
       <primary>SET function</primary>
-    </indexterm>(</emphasis><emphasis>recordset,field</emphasis><emphasis
-  role="bold">)</emphasis></para>
+    </indexterm>(</emphasis><emphasis>recordset, field</emphasis> <emphasis
+  role="bold">[, UNORDERED | ORDERED(</emphasis> <emphasis>bool
+  </emphasis><emphasis role="bold">) ] [, STABLE | UNSTABLE ] [, PARALLEL [
+  (</emphasis> <emphasis>numthreads </emphasis><emphasis role="bold">) ] ] [,
+  ALGORITHM(</emphasis> <emphasis>name </emphasis><emphasis role="bold">) ]
+  )</emphasis></para>
 
   <para><informaltable colsep="1" frame="all" rowsep="1">
       <tgroup cols="2">
@@ -33,6 +37,71 @@
           </row>
 
           <row>
+            <entry><emphasis role="bold">UNORDERED</emphasis></entry>
+
+            <entry>Optional. Specifies the output record order is not
+            significant.</entry>
+          </row>
+
+          <row>
+            <entry><emphasis role="bold">ORDERED</emphasis></entry>
+
+            <entry>Specifies the significance of the output record
+            order.</entry>
+          </row>
+
+          <row>
+            <entry><emphasis>bool</emphasis></entry>
+
+            <entry>When False, specifies the output record order is not
+            significant. When True, specifies the default output record
+            order.</entry>
+          </row>
+
+          <row>
+            <entry><emphasis role="bold">STABLE</emphasis></entry>
+
+            <entry>Optional. Specifies the input record order is
+            significant.</entry>
+          </row>
+
+          <row>
+            <entry><emphasis role="bold">UNSTABLE</emphasis></entry>
+
+            <entry>Optional. Specifies the input record order is not
+            significant.</entry>
+          </row>
+
+          <row>
+            <entry><emphasis role="bold">PARALLEL</emphasis></entry>
+
+            <entry>Optional. Try to evaluate this activity in
+            parallel.</entry>
+          </row>
+
+          <row>
+            <entry><emphasis>numthreads</emphasis></entry>
+
+            <entry>Optional. Try to evaluate this activity using
+            <emphasis>numthreads</emphasis> threads.</entry>
+          </row>
+
+          <row>
+            <entry><emphasis role="bold">ALGORITHM</emphasis></entry>
+
+            <entry>Optional. Override the algorithm used for this
+            activity.</entry>
+          </row>
+
+          <row>
+            <entry><emphasis>name</emphasis></entry>
+
+            <entry>The algorithm to use for this activity. Must be from the
+            list of supported algorithms for the SORT function's STABLE and
+            UNSTABLE options.</entry>
+          </row>
+
+          <row>
             <entry>Return:</entry>
 
             <entry>SET returns a SET of values of the same type as the

docs/ECLLanguageReference/ECLR_mods/BltInFunc-SOAPCALL.xml

@@ -18,7 +18,7 @@
     </indexterm>(</emphasis><emphasis>outstructure</emphasis><emphasis
   role="bold">) </emphasis><emphasis>| outstructure </emphasis><emphasis
   role="bold">[</emphasis><emphasis>, options </emphasis><emphasis
-  role="bold">]);</emphasis><emphasis role="bold"></emphasis></para>
+  role="bold">]</emphasis> <emphasis role="bold">[, UNORDERED | ORDERED(</emphasis> <emphasis>bool </emphasis><emphasis role="bold">) ] [, STABLE | UNSTABLE ] [, PARALLEL [ (</emphasis> <emphasis>numthreads </emphasis><emphasis role="bold">) ] ] [, ALGORITHM(</emphasis> <emphasis>name </emphasis><emphasis role="bold">) ] );</emphasis></para>
 
   <para><emphasis role="bold">SOAPCALL( [ </emphasis><emphasis>recset,
   </emphasis><emphasis role="bold">]</emphasis><emphasis> url, service,
@@ -26,8 +26,7 @@
   </emphasis><emphasis>transform, </emphasis><emphasis
   role="bold">]</emphasis><emphasis> </emphasis><emphasis
   role="bold">[</emphasis><emphasis> options </emphasis><emphasis
-  role="bold">]</emphasis><emphasis> </emphasis><emphasis
-  role="bold">);</emphasis></para>
+  role="bold">]</emphasis> <emphasis role="bold">[, UNORDERED | ORDERED(</emphasis> <emphasis>bool </emphasis><emphasis role="bold">) ] [, STABLE | UNSTABLE ] [, PARALLEL [ (</emphasis> <emphasis>numthreads </emphasis><emphasis role="bold">) ] ] [, ALGORITHM(</emphasis> <emphasis>name </emphasis><emphasis role="bold">) ] );</emphasis></para>
 
   <para><informaltable colsep="1" frame="all" rowsep="1">
       <tgroup cols="2">
@@ -129,6 +128,51 @@
             <entry>A comma-delimited list of optional specifications from the
             list below.</entry>
           </row>
+          <row>
+            <entry><emphasis role="bold">UNORDERED</emphasis></entry>
+
+            <entry>Optional. Specifies the output record order is not significant.</entry>
+          </row>
+          <row>
+            <entry><emphasis role="bold">ORDERED</emphasis></entry>
+
+            <entry>Specifies the significance of the output record order.</entry>
+          </row>
+          <row>
+            <entry><emphasis>bool</emphasis></entry>
+
+            <entry>When False, specifies the output record order is not significant. When True, specifies the default output record order.</entry>
+          </row>
+          <row>
+            <entry><emphasis role="bold">STABLE</emphasis></entry>
+
+            <entry>Optional. Specifies the input record order is significant.</entry>
+          </row>
+          <row>
+            <entry><emphasis role="bold">UNSTABLE</emphasis></entry>
+
+            <entry>Optional. Specifies the input record order is not significant.</entry>
+          </row>
+          <row>
+            <entry><emphasis role="bold">PARALLEL</emphasis></entry>
+
+            <entry>Optional. Try to evaluate this activity in parallel.</entry>
+          </row>
+          <row>
+            <entry><emphasis>numthreads</emphasis></entry>
+
+            <entry>Optional. Try to evaluate this activity using <emphasis>numthreads</emphasis> threads.</entry>
+          </row>
+          <row>
+            <entry><emphasis role="bold">ALGORITHM</emphasis></entry>
+
+            <entry>Optional. Override the algorithm used for this activity.</entry>
+          </row>
+          <row>
+            <entry><emphasis>name</emphasis></entry>
+
+            <entry>The algorithm to use for this activity. Must be from the list of supported algorithms for the SORT function's STABLE and UNSTABLE options.</entry>
+          </row>
 
           <row>
             <entry>Return:</entry>

docs/ECLLanguageReference/ECLR_mods/BltInFunc-SORT.xml

@@ -35,7 +35,7 @@
   role="bold"> )] | UNSTABLE<indexterm>
       <primary>UNSTABLE</primary>
     </indexterm> [ ( </emphasis><emphasis>algorithm</emphasis><emphasis
-  role="bold"> )] ] )</emphasis></para>
+  role="bold"> )] ] </emphasis> <emphasis role="bold">[, UNORDERED | ORDERED(</emphasis> <emphasis>bool </emphasis><emphasis role="bold">) ] [, PARALLEL [ (</emphasis> <emphasis>numthreads </emphasis><emphasis role="bold">) ] ] [, ALGORITHM(</emphasis> <emphasis>name </emphasis><emphasis role="bold">) ] )</emphasis></para>
 
   <para><informaltable colsep="1" frame="all" rowsep="1">
       <tgroup cols="2">
@@ -166,6 +166,41 @@
             in any order. Ignored if not supported by the target
             platform.</entry>
           </row>
+          <row>
+            <entry><emphasis role="bold">UNORDERED</emphasis></entry>
+
+            <entry>Optional. Specifies the output record order is not significant.</entry>
+          </row>
+          <row>
+            <entry><emphasis role="bold">ORDERED</emphasis></entry>
+
+            <entry>Specifies the significance of the output record order.</entry>
+          </row>
+          <row>
+            <entry><emphasis>bool</emphasis></entry>
+
+            <entry>When False, specifies the output record order is not significant. When True, specifies the default output record order.</entry>
+          </row>
+          <row>
+            <entry><emphasis role="bold">PARALLEL</emphasis></entry>
+
+            <entry>Optional. Try to evaluate this activity in parallel.</entry>
+          </row>
+          <row>
+            <entry><emphasis>numthreads</emphasis></entry>
+
+            <entry>Optional. Try to evaluate this activity using <emphasis>numthreads</emphasis> threads.</entry>
+          </row>
+          <row>
+            <entry><emphasis role="bold">ALGORITHM</emphasis></entry>
+
+            <entry>Optional. Override the algorithm used for this activity.</entry>
+          </row>
+          <row>
+            <entry><emphasis>name</emphasis></entry>
+
+            <entry>The algorithm to use for this activity. Must be from the list of supported algorithms for the SORT function's STABLE and UNSTABLE options.</entry>
+          </row>
 
           <row>
             <entry>Return:</entry>

docs/ECLLanguageReference/ECLR_mods/BltInFunc-STEPPED.xml

@@ -8,8 +8,7 @@
       <primary>STEPPED</primary>
     </indexterm><indexterm>
       <primary>STEPPED function</primary>
-    </indexterm>( </emphasis><emphasis>index, fields </emphasis><emphasis
-  role="bold">)</emphasis></para>
+    </indexterm>( </emphasis><emphasis>index, fields </emphasis><emphasis role="bold">[, UNORDERED | ORDERED(</emphasis> <emphasis>bool </emphasis><emphasis role="bold">) ] [, STABLE | UNSTABLE ] [, PARALLEL [ (</emphasis> <emphasis>numthreads </emphasis><emphasis role="bold">) ] ] [, ALGORITHM(</emphasis> <emphasis>name </emphasis><emphasis role="bold">) ] )</emphasis></para>
 
   <para><informaltable colsep="1" frame="all" rowsep="1">
       <tgroup cols="2">
@@ -31,6 +30,52 @@
             <entry>A comma-delimited list of fields by which to sort the
             result, typically trailing elements in the key.</entry>
           </row>
+          <row>
+            <entry><emphasis role="bold">UNORDERED</emphasis></entry>
+
+            <entry>Optional. Specifies the output record order is not significant.</entry>
+          </row>
+          <row>
+            <entry><emphasis role="bold">ORDERED</emphasis></entry>
+
+            <entry>Specifies the significance of the output record order.</entry>
+          </row>
+          <row>
+            <entry><emphasis>bool</emphasis></entry>
+
+            <entry>When False, specifies the output record order is not significant. When True, specifies the default output record order.</entry>
+          </row>
+          <row>
+            <entry><emphasis role="bold">STABLE</emphasis></entry>
+
+            <entry>Optional. Specifies the input record order is significant.</entry>
+          </row>
+          <row>
+            <entry><emphasis role="bold">UNSTABLE</emphasis></entry>
+
+            <entry>Optional. Specifies the input record order is not significant.</entry>
+          </row>
+          <row>
+            <entry><emphasis role="bold">PARALLEL</emphasis></entry>
+
+            <entry>Optional. Try to evaluate this activity in parallel.</entry>
+          </row>
+          <row>
+            <entry><emphasis>numthreads</emphasis></entry>
+
+            <entry>Optional. Try to evaluate this activity using <emphasis>numthreads</emphasis> threads.</entry>
+          </row>
+          <row>
+            <entry><emphasis role="bold">ALGORITHM</emphasis></entry>
+
+            <entry>Optional. Override the algorithm used for this activity.</entry>
+          </row>
+          <row>
+            <entry><emphasis>name</emphasis></entry>
+
+            <entry>The algorithm to use for this activity. Must be from the list of supported algorithms for the SORT function's STABLE and UNSTABLE options.</entry>
+          </row>
+          
         </tbody>
       </tgroup>
     </informaltable></para>

docs/ECLLanguageReference/ECLR_mods/BltInFunc-SUM.xml

@@ -15,7 +15,7 @@
     </indexterm> ])</emphasis><emphasis role="bold"></emphasis></para>
 
   <para><emphasis role="bold">SUM(</emphasis><emphasis> valuelist
-  </emphasis><emphasis role="bold">)</emphasis></para>
+  </emphasis> <emphasis role="bold">[, UNORDERED | ORDERED(</emphasis> <emphasis>bool </emphasis><emphasis role="bold">) ] [, STABLE | UNSTABLE ] [, PARALLEL [ (</emphasis> <emphasis>numthreads </emphasis><emphasis role="bold">) ] ] [, ALGORITHM(</emphasis> <emphasis>name </emphasis><emphasis role="bold">) ] )</emphasis></para>
 
   <para><informaltable colsep="1" frame="all" rowsep="1">
       <tgroup cols="2">
@@ -64,6 +64,51 @@
             <entry>A comma-delimited list of expressions to find the sum of.
             This may also be a SET of values.</entry>
           </row>
+          <row>
+            <entry><emphasis role="bold">UNORDERED</emphasis></entry>
+
+            <entry>Optional. Specifies the output record order is not significant.</entry>
+          </row>
+          <row>
+            <entry><emphasis role="bold">ORDERED</emphasis></entry>
+
+            <entry>Specifies the significance of the output record order.</entry>
+          </row>
+          <row>
+            <entry><emphasis>bool</emphasis></entry>
+
+            <entry>When False, specifies the output record order is not significant. When True, specifies the default output record order.</entry>
+          </row>
+          <row>
+            <entry><emphasis role="bold">STABLE</emphasis></entry>
+
+            <entry>Optional. Specifies the input record order is significant.</entry>
+          </row>
+          <row>
+            <entry><emphasis role="bold">UNSTABLE</emphasis></entry>
+
+            <entry>Optional. Specifies the input record order is not significant.</entry>
+          </row>
+          <row>
+            <entry><emphasis role="bold">PARALLEL</emphasis></entry>
+
+            <entry>Optional. Try to evaluate this activity in parallel.</entry>
+          </row>
+          <row>
+            <entry><emphasis>numthreads</emphasis></entry>
+
+            <entry>Optional. Try to evaluate this activity using <emphasis>numthreads</emphasis> threads.</entry>
+          </row>
+          <row>
+            <entry><emphasis role="bold">ALGORITHM</emphasis></entry>
+
+            <entry>Optional. Override the algorithm used for this activity.</entry>
+          </row>
+          <row>
+            <entry><emphasis>name</emphasis></entry>
+
+            <entry>The algorithm to use for this activity. Must be from the list of supported algorithms for the SORT function's STABLE and UNSTABLE options.</entry>
+          </row>
 
           <row>
             <entry>Return:</entry>

docs/ECLLanguageReference/ECLR_mods/BltInFunc-TABLE.xml

@@ -9,31 +9,27 @@
     </indexterm><indexterm>
       <primary>TABLE Function</primary>
     </indexterm>(</emphasis><emphasis>recordset, format</emphasis><emphasis
-  role="bold"> [</emphasis><emphasis>,expression</emphasis><emphasis
-  role="bold"> [</emphasis><emphasis>,</emphasis><emphasis
-  role="bold">FEW<indexterm>
+  role="bold"> [</emphasis><emphasis>, expression</emphasis><emphasis
+  role="bold"> [</emphasis>,<emphasis role="bold">FEW<indexterm>
       <primary>FEW</primary>
     </indexterm> | MANY<indexterm>
       <primary>MANY</primary>
-    </indexterm>] [</emphasis><emphasis>, </emphasis><emphasis
+    </indexterm>] [</emphasis>, <emphasis
   role="bold">UNSORTED<indexterm>
       <primary>UNSORTED</primary>
-    </indexterm>]] [</emphasis><emphasis>,</emphasis><emphasis
-  role="bold">LOCAL<indexterm>
+    </indexterm>]] [</emphasis>, <emphasis role="bold">LOCAL<indexterm>
       <primary>LOCAL</primary>
-    </indexterm>]</emphasis><emphasis role="bold"> [, KEYED<indexterm>
+    </indexterm>] [, KEYED<indexterm>
       <primary>KEYED</primary>
-    </indexterm> ]</emphasis> <emphasis role="bold"> [, MERGE<indexterm>
+    </indexterm> ] [, MERGE<indexterm>
       <primary>MERGE</primary>
-    </indexterm> ] <emphasis role="bold">[</emphasis>,<emphasis
-  role="bold">SKEW<indexterm>
+    </indexterm> ] [, SKEW<indexterm>
       <primary>SKEW</primary>
-    </indexterm>(</emphasis><emphasis>limit</emphasis><emphasis
-  role="bold">[</emphasis><emphasis>, target</emphasis><emphasis role="bold">]
+    </indexterm>(</emphasis><emphasis>limit</emphasis><emphasis role="bold">[</emphasis><emphasis>, target</emphasis><emphasis role="bold">]
   ) [, THRESHOLD<indexterm>
       <primary>THRESHOLD</primary>
     </indexterm>(</emphasis><emphasis>size</emphasis><emphasis role="bold">) ]
-  ]</emphasis>)</emphasis></para>
+  ] </emphasis><emphasis role="bold">[, UNORDERED | ORDERED(</emphasis> <emphasis>bool </emphasis><emphasis role="bold">) ] [, STABLE | UNSTABLE ] [, PARALLEL [ (</emphasis> <emphasis>numthreads </emphasis><emphasis role="bold">) ] ] [, ALGORITHM(</emphasis> <emphasis>name </emphasis><emphasis role="bold">) ] )</emphasis></para>
 
   <para><informaltable colsep="1" frame="all" rowsep="1">
       <tgroup cols="2">
@@ -162,6 +158,51 @@
             <entry>An integer value indicating the minimum number of bytes for
             a single part. Default is 1GB.</entry>
           </row>
+          <row>
+            <entry><emphasis role="bold">UNORDERED</emphasis></entry>
+
+            <entry>Optional. Specifies the output record order is not significant.</entry>
+          </row>
+          <row>
+            <entry><emphasis role="bold">ORDERED</emphasis></entry>
+
+            <entry>Specifies the significance of the output record order.</entry>
+          </row>
+          <row>
+            <entry><emphasis>bool</emphasis></entry>
+
+            <entry>When False, specifies the output record order is not significant. When True, specifies the default output record order.</entry>
+          </row>
+          <row>
+            <entry><emphasis role="bold">STABLE</emphasis></entry>
+
+            <entry>Optional. Specifies the input record order is significant.</entry>
+          </row>
+          <row>
+            <entry><emphasis role="bold">UNSTABLE</emphasis></entry>
+
+            <entry>Optional. Specifies the input record order is not significant.</entry>
+          </row>
+          <row>
+            <entry><emphasis role="bold">PARALLEL</emphasis></entry>
+
+            <entry>Optional. Try to evaluate this activity in parallel.</entry>
+          </row>
+          <row>
+            <entry><emphasis>numthreads</emphasis></entry>
+
+            <entry>Optional. Try to evaluate this activity using <emphasis>numthreads</emphasis> threads.</entry>
+          </row>
+          <row>
+            <entry><emphasis role="bold">ALGORITHM</emphasis></entry>
+
+            <entry>Optional. Override the algorithm used for this activity.</entry>
+          </row>
+          <row>
+            <entry><emphasis>name</emphasis></entry>
+
+            <entry>The algorithm to use for this activity. Must be from the list of supported algorithms for the SORT function's STABLE and UNSTABLE options.</entry>
+          </row>
 
           <row>
             <entry>Return:</entry>

docs/ECLLanguageReference/ECLR_mods/BltInFunc-TOPN.xml

@@ -15,7 +15,7 @@
   role="bold"> ) ] [</emphasis><emphasis>,</emphasis><emphasis
   role="bold">LOCAL<indexterm>
       <primary>LOCAL</primary>
-    </indexterm>] )</emphasis></para>
+    </indexterm>] </emphasis><emphasis role="bold">[, UNORDERED | ORDERED(</emphasis> <emphasis>bool </emphasis><emphasis role="bold">) ] [, STABLE | UNSTABLE ] [, PARALLEL [ (</emphasis> <emphasis>numthreads </emphasis><emphasis role="bold">) ] ] [, ALGORITHM(</emphasis> <emphasis>name </emphasis><emphasis role="bold">) ] )</emphasis></para>
 
   <para><informaltable colsep="1" frame="all" rowsep="1">
       <tgroup cols="2">
@@ -75,6 +75,51 @@
             with all other nodes to acquire data; the operation maintains the
             distribution of any previous DISTRIBUTE.</entry>
           </row>
+          <row>
+            <entry><emphasis role="bold">UNORDERED</emphasis></entry>
+
+            <entry>Optional. Specifies the output record order is not significant.</entry>
+          </row>
+          <row>
+            <entry><emphasis role="bold">ORDERED</emphasis></entry>
+
+            <entry>Specifies the significance of the output record order.</entry>
+          </row>
+          <row>
+            <entry><emphasis>bool</emphasis></entry>
+
+            <entry>When False, specifies the output record order is not significant. When True, specifies the default output record order.</entry>
+          </row>
+          <row>
+            <entry><emphasis role="bold">STABLE</emphasis></entry>
+
+            <entry>Optional. Specifies the input record order is significant.</entry>
+          </row>
+          <row>
+            <entry><emphasis role="bold">UNSTABLE</emphasis></entry>
+
+            <entry>Optional. Specifies the input record order is not significant.</entry>
+          </row>
+          <row>
+            <entry><emphasis role="bold">PARALLEL</emphasis></entry>
+
+            <entry>Optional. Try to evaluate this activity in parallel.</entry>
+          </row>
+          <row>
+            <entry><emphasis>numthreads</emphasis></entry>
+
+            <entry>Optional. Try to evaluate this activity using <emphasis>numthreads</emphasis> threads.</entry>
+          </row>
+          <row>
+            <entry><emphasis role="bold">ALGORITHM</emphasis></entry>
+
+            <entry>Optional. Override the algorithm used for this activity.</entry>
+          </row>
+          <row>
+            <entry><emphasis>name</emphasis></entry>
+
+            <entry>The algorithm to use for this activity. Must be from the list of supported algorithms for the SORT function's STABLE and UNSTABLE options.</entry>
+          </row>
 
           <row>
             <entry>Return:</entry>

docs/ECLLanguageReference/ECLR_mods/BltInFunc-UNGROUP.xml

@@ -6,8 +6,7 @@
 
   <para><emphasis role="bold">UNGROUP<indexterm>
       <primary>UNGROUP</primary>
-    </indexterm>( </emphasis><emphasis>recordset </emphasis><emphasis
-  role="bold">)</emphasis></para>
+    </indexterm>( </emphasis><emphasis>recordset </emphasis><emphasis role="bold">[, UNORDERED | ORDERED(</emphasis> <emphasis>bool </emphasis><emphasis role="bold">) ] [, STABLE | UNSTABLE ] [, PARALLEL [ (</emphasis> <emphasis>numthreads </emphasis><emphasis role="bold">) ] ] [, ALGORITHM(</emphasis> <emphasis>name </emphasis><emphasis role="bold">) ] )</emphasis></para>
 
   <para><informaltable colsep="1" frame="all" rowsep="1">
       <tgroup cols="2">
@@ -21,6 +20,51 @@
 
             <entry>The set of previously GROUPed records.</entry>
           </row>
+          <row>
+            <entry><emphasis role="bold">UNORDERED</emphasis></entry>
+
+            <entry>Optional. Specifies the output record order is not significant.</entry>
+          </row>
+          <row>
+            <entry><emphasis role="bold">ORDERED</emphasis></entry>
+
+            <entry>Specifies the significance of the output record order.</entry>
+          </row>
+          <row>
+            <entry><emphasis>bool</emphasis></entry>
+
+            <entry>When False, specifies the output record order is not significant. When True, specifies the default output record order.</entry>
+          </row>
+          <row>
+            <entry><emphasis role="bold">STABLE</emphasis></entry>
+
+            <entry>Optional. Specifies the input record order is significant.</entry>
+          </row>
+          <row>
+            <entry><emphasis role="bold">UNSTABLE</emphasis></entry>
+
+            <entry>Optional. Specifies the input record order is not significant.</entry>
+          </row>
+          <row>
+            <entry><emphasis role="bold">PARALLEL</emphasis></entry>
+
+            <entry>Optional. Try to evaluate this activity in parallel.</entry>
+          </row>
+          <row>
+            <entry><emphasis>numthreads</emphasis></entry>
+
+            <entry>Optional. Try to evaluate this activity using <emphasis>numthreads</emphasis> threads.</entry>
+          </row>
+          <row>
+            <entry><emphasis role="bold">ALGORITHM</emphasis></entry>
+
+            <entry>Optional. Override the algorithm used for this activity.</entry>
+          </row>
+          <row>
+            <entry><emphasis>name</emphasis></entry>
+
+            <entry>The algorithm to use for this activity. Must be from the list of supported algorithms for the SORT function's STABLE and UNSTABLE options.</entry>
+          </row>
 
           <row>
             <entry>Return:</entry>

docs/ECLLanguageReference/ECLR_mods/BltInFunc-UNORDERED.xml

@@ -0,0 +1,41 @@
+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
+<!DOCTYPE sect1 PUBLIC "-//OASIS//DTD DocBook XML V4.5//EN"
+"http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/xml/4.5/docbookx.dtd">
+<sect1 id="UNORDERED">
+  <title>UNORDERED</title>
+
+  <para><emphasis role="bold">UNORDERED<indexterm>
+      <primary>UNORDERED</primary>
+    </indexterm><indexterm>
+      <primary>UNORDERED function</primary>
+    </indexterm>(</emphasis><emphasis> dataset </emphasis><emphasis
+  role="bold">)</emphasis></para>
+
+  <para><informaltable colsep="1" frame="all" rowsep="1">
+      <tgroup cols="2">
+        <colspec colwidth="82.95pt" />
+
+        <colspec />
+
+        <tbody>
+          <row>
+            <entry><emphasis>dataset</emphasis></entry>
+
+            <entry>The name of the unordered DATASET.</entry>
+          </row>
+        </tbody>
+      </tgroup>
+    </informaltable></para>
+
+  <para>The <emphasis role="bold">UNORDERED </emphasis>function is used to
+  indicate that the order of the records in the <emphasis>dataset</emphasis>
+  is not significant. This will allow the code generator in future versions to
+  apply extra optimizations.</para>
+
+  <para>Example:</para>
+
+  <programlisting>Def1 := UNORDERED(MyDataset);
+//the order of MyDataset is not significant, 
+//so the code generator can perform optimizations based on that
+</programlisting>
+</sect1>

docs/ECLLanguageReference/ECLR_mods/BltInFunc-VARIANCE.xml

@@ -10,7 +10,7 @@
   role="bold">[ </emphasis><emphasis>, expresssion</emphasis><emphasis
   role="bold">] [, KEYED<indexterm>
       <primary>KEYED</primary>
-    </indexterm> ])</emphasis></para>
+    </indexterm> ] </emphasis><emphasis role="bold">[, UNORDERED | ORDERED(</emphasis> <emphasis>bool </emphasis><emphasis role="bold">) ] [, STABLE | UNSTABLE ] [, PARALLEL [ (</emphasis> <emphasis>numthreads </emphasis><emphasis role="bold">) ] ] [, ALGORITHM(</emphasis> <emphasis>name </emphasis><emphasis role="bold">) ] )</emphasis></para>
 
   <para><informaltable colsep="1" frame="all" rowsep="1">
       <tgroup cols="2">
@@ -55,6 +55,51 @@
             operation, which allows the optimizer to generate optimal code for
             the operation.</entry>
           </row>
+          <row>
+            <entry><emphasis role="bold">UNORDERED</emphasis></entry>
+
+            <entry>Optional. Specifies the output record order is not significant.</entry>
+          </row>
+          <row>
+            <entry><emphasis role="bold">ORDERED</emphasis></entry>
+
+            <entry>Specifies the significance of the output record order.</entry>
+          </row>
+          <row>
+            <entry><emphasis>bool</emphasis></entry>
+
+            <entry>When False, specifies the output record order is not significant. When True, specifies the default output record order.</entry>
+          </row>
+          <row>
+            <entry><emphasis role="bold">STABLE</emphasis></entry>
+
+            <entry>Optional. Specifies the input record order is significant.</entry>
+          </row>
+          <row>
+            <entry><emphasis role="bold">UNSTABLE</emphasis></entry>
+
+            <entry>Optional. Specifies the input record order is not significant.</entry>
+          </row>
+          <row>
+            <entry><emphasis role="bold">PARALLEL</emphasis></entry>
+
+            <entry>Optional. Try to evaluate this activity in parallel.</entry>
+          </row>
+          <row>
+            <entry><emphasis>numthreads</emphasis></entry>
+
+            <entry>Optional. Try to evaluate this activity using <emphasis>numthreads</emphasis> threads.</entry>
+          </row>
+          <row>
+            <entry><emphasis role="bold">ALGORITHM</emphasis></entry>
+
+            <entry>Optional. Override the algorithm used for this activity.</entry>
+          </row>
+          <row>
+            <entry><emphasis>name</emphasis></entry>
+
+            <entry>The algorithm to use for this activity. Must be from the list of supported algorithms for the SORT function's STABLE and UNSTABLE options.</entry>
+          </row>
 
           <row>
             <entry>Return:</entry>

docs/ECLLanguageReference/ECLR_mods/Expr-RecordSetOps.xml

@@ -8,8 +8,8 @@
       <primary>Record Set Operators</primary>
     </indexterm></title>
 
-  <para>The following record set operators are supported (both require that
-  the files were created using identical RECORD structures<indexterm>
+  <para>The following record set operators are supported (all require that the
+  files were created using identical RECORD structures<indexterm>
       <primary>RECORD structure</primary>
     </indexterm>):</para>
 
@@ -28,16 +28,16 @@
         </row>
 
         <row>
-          <entry>-</entry>
+          <entry>&amp;</entry>
 
-          <entry>Subtract records from a file</entry>
+          <entry>Append all records from both files, maintaining record order
+          on each node</entry>
         </row>
 
         <row>
-          <entry>&amp;</entry>
+          <entry>-</entry>
 
-          <entry>Append all records from both files, maintaining record order
-          on each node</entry>
+          <entry>Subtract records from a file</entry>
         </row>
       </tbody>
     </tgroup>
@@ -56,11 +56,148 @@ SecondRecSet := DATASET([{5, 'FIVE'}, {6, 'SIX'}, {7, 'SEVEN'}, {8, 'EIGHT'}], M
 ExcludeThese := SecondRecSet(Num &gt; 6);
 
 WholeRecSet := FirstRecSet + SecondRecSet;
-ResultSet:= WholeRecSet-ExcludeThese;
+ResultSet   := WholeRecSet-ExcludeThese;
 
 OUTPUT (WholeRecSet);
 OUTPUT(ResultSet);
 </programlisting>
 
-  <para></para>
+  <sect2 id="Prefix_Append_Operator">
+    <title>Prefix Append Operator</title>
+
+    <para><emphasis role="bold">(+)
+    (</emphasis><emphasis>ds_list</emphasis><emphasis role="bold">)
+    [</emphasis><emphasis>, options</emphasis><emphasis role="bold">]
+    )</emphasis></para>
+
+    <informaltable colsep="1" frame="all" rowsep="1">
+      <tgroup cols="2">
+        <colspec colwidth="92.05pt" />
+
+        <colspec />
+
+        <tbody>
+          <row>
+            <entry><emphasis role="bold">(+)</emphasis></entry>
+
+            <entry>The prefix append operator.</entry>
+          </row>
+
+          <row>
+            <entry><emphasis>ds_list</emphasis></entry>
+
+            <entry>A comma-delimited list of record sets to append (two or
+            more). All the record sets must have identical RECORD
+            structures.</entry>
+          </row>
+
+          <row>
+            <entry><emphasis>options</emphasis></entry>
+
+            <entry>Optional. A comma-delimited list of options from the list
+            below.</entry>
+          </row>
+        </tbody>
+      </tgroup>
+    </informaltable>
+
+    <para>The prefix append operator <emphasis>(+)</emphasis> provides more
+    flexibility than the simple infix operators described above. It allows
+    hints and other options to be associated with the operator. Similar syntax
+    will be added in a future change for other infix operators.</para>
+
+    <para>The following <emphasis>options</emphasis> may be used:</para>
+
+    <para><emphasis role="bold">[, UNORDERED | ORDERED(</emphasis>
+    <emphasis>bool </emphasis><emphasis role="bold">) ] [, STABLE | UNSTABLE ]
+    [, PARALLEL [ (</emphasis> <emphasis>numthreads </emphasis><emphasis
+    role="bold">) ] ] [, ALGORITHM(</emphasis> <emphasis>name
+    </emphasis><emphasis role="bold">) ]</emphasis></para>
+
+    <informaltable colsep="1" frame="all" rowsep="1">
+      <tgroup cols="2">
+        <colspec colwidth="92.05pt" />
+
+        <colspec />
+
+        <tbody>
+          <row>
+            <entry><emphasis role="bold">UNORDERED</emphasis></entry>
+
+            <entry>Optional. Specifies the output record order is not
+            significant.</entry>
+          </row>
+
+          <row>
+            <entry><emphasis role="bold">ORDERED</emphasis></entry>
+
+            <entry>Specifies the significance of the output record
+            order.</entry>
+          </row>
+
+          <row>
+            <entry><emphasis>bool</emphasis></entry>
+
+            <entry>When False, specifies the output record order is not
+            significant. When True, specifies the default output record
+            order.</entry>
+          </row>
+
+          <row>
+            <entry><emphasis role="bold">STABLE</emphasis></entry>
+
+            <entry>Optional. Specifies the input record order is
+            significant.</entry>
+          </row>
+
+          <row>
+            <entry><emphasis role="bold">UNSTABLE</emphasis></entry>
+
+            <entry>Optional. Specifies the input record order is not
+            significant.</entry>
+          </row>
+
+          <row>
+            <entry><emphasis role="bold">PARALLEL</emphasis></entry>
+
+            <entry>Optional. Try to evaluate this activity in
+            parallel.</entry>
+          </row>
+
+          <row>
+            <entry><emphasis>numthreads</emphasis></entry>
+
+            <entry>Optional. Try to evaluate this activity using
+            <emphasis>numthreads</emphasis> threads.</entry>
+          </row>
+
+          <row>
+            <entry><emphasis role="bold">ALGORITHM</emphasis></entry>
+
+            <entry>Optional. Override the algorithm used for this
+            activity.</entry>
+          </row>
+
+          <row>
+            <entry><emphasis>name</emphasis></entry>
+
+            <entry>The algorithm to use for this activity. Must be from the
+            list of supported algorithms for the SORT function's STABLE and
+            UNSTABLE options.</entry>
+          </row>
+        </tbody>
+      </tgroup>
+    </informaltable>
+
+    <para>Example:</para>
+
+    <programlisting>ds_1 := (+)(ds1, ds2, UNORDERED);
+  //equivalent to: ds := ds1 + ds2;        
+  
+ds_2 := (+)(ds1, ds2);
+  //equivalent to: ds := ds1 &amp; ds2;                
+
+ds_3 := (+)(ds1, ds2, ds3);
+  //multiple file appends are supported</programlisting>
+  </sect2>
 </sect1>