When a view is first populated, the default setting is to sort the data in the first column in ascending order. In CICS TS 4.2 and later, you can choose to change the sort order, or the sorted column.
You must be connected to a CICS TS 4.2 or later system using CMCI for data sorting to work. Attempting to sort a column in a release before CICS TS 4.2 has no effect.
Each time you click the column name the data is refreshed and displayed in the next sort order in the rotation. The column heading is decorated with an icon to indicate the sort order. If you subsequently close the view, the sort order is remembered and displayed again the next time the view is opened. If you remove the sort column from the view, the default sort order is used, that is, the data in column one is sorted in ascending order. The current sort order is retained if the view is refreshed.