CoSORT Easily Migrates MVS JCL Sort Parms to UNIX and Windows

All CoSORT packages include the free "mvs2scl" utility to convert MVS sort, merge and sum parms in JCL into equivalent CoSORT sort control language (SortCL) job specification (.scl) files. The conversion utilityruns on the command line and produces immediate results. The resulting SortCL script performs the same steps -- usually faster because of newer hardware, and certainly less-expensively off the mainframe. In addition, because the new application is in the more modern and explicit syntax of SortCL, you can easily expand the script to perform additional, simultaneous transformations on the data. This is more efficient than programming separate manipulation passess in a 3GL (e.g. COBOL) program or shell (e.g. PERL) script.

To use mvs2scl, move your existing JCL sort parms (as a text file) to the UNIX or Windows platform running CoSORT. Run the program on the command line:

The application is now ready to run in CoSORT:

CoSORT's mvs2scl program can process almost any MVS mainframe JCL sort and generates either ASCII or EBCDIC collating sequence sorts. In addition, mvs2scl can fill zoned decimal fields and create filler field(s) to pad out to the end of a record. Anything that mvs2scl cannot handle can be converted by an IRI agent or CoSORT technical support.