As the world's first commercial sort for open systems, and first third-party sort for Solaris, CoSORT has long supported the cost-effective migration of CICS and batch (JCL) sort applications off the mainframe. CoSORT's partnership with Sun's Mainframe Rehosting Program team dates back to its Integris and Unikix roots in Europe and the United States.

CoSORT is an established sort standard within the Sun Mainframe Transaction Processing (Sun MTP) and Sun Mainframe Batch Manager (Sun MBM) solutions; in 2003, CoSORT became the demonstrated sort software in the Sun Mainframe Rehosting Reference Architecture (Sun MFRRA). With CoSORT, mainframe users can replace legacy sort applications on Sun's "more cost-efficient, open platforms - often at equal or greater levelsof performance, flexibility and scalability."

In addition to offering rehosted sorting and reporting functionality on UNIX, CoSORT also handles:

· MVS and VSE JCL sort parm translation
· COBOL sort, copybook, and data migration
· UNIX and other third-party sort replacements
· Data manipulation and integration in the data warehouse
· Oracle and flat-file ETL acceleration

Descrição

By integrating Sun's ISAM libraries directly into CoSORT's powerful, and mainframe-familiar sort control language (SortCL) program, Sun MTP and MBM users can process VSAM files along with other sequential (flat) file formats for JCL sort migration and Solaris-based data warehousing environments. CoSORT is in many cases faster than the mainframe sorts it replaces.

CoSORT's award-winning SortCL interface is widely used in MIS reporting, VLDB reorg, and data warehouse exact-transform-load (ETL) operations. SortCL has unique single-pass selection, matching (join), sorting, aggregation, translation, and reformatting capability. SortCL is run on the command line, from shell scripts, via Java GUI, or application programs. There is also a sortcl_routine call for API-level integration.CoSORT's free mvs2scl and vse2scl utilities automatically convert the JCL steps for MVS and VSE mainframe sort cards into SortCL scripts, ready for execution. Non-sort steps can be preserved, and data typed as 'CH' can convert to either ASCII or EBCDIC. Note that CoSORT can convert between these data types, and sort in either order, as well as ASCII in EBCDIC sequence.

CoSORT's free cob2scl utility automatically converts MF COBOL data dictionary files into SortCL field layouts. These metadata specifications can be copied into, or incorporated by reference, into one or more SortCL transformation jobs. CoSORT users upgrading from, or directly replacing UNIX scripts can use their COBOL copybook layouts within SortCL jobs without the need for a separate conversion pass.

Plataformas Disponíveis

The VSAM-enabled version of SortCL for use within the Sun MTP/MBM context runs only on Solaris platforms. Otherwise, CoSORT and SortCL, run on ALL commercially-available UNIX and Windows XP, NT and 2000-based hardware. Click here for a full list of systems CoSORT supports.

Licença de Uso e Suporte

The perpetual use CoSORT package license includes several standalone utilities, API calls, Java GUI, third-party sort and metadata conversion facilities, configuration files, one year of support, and full documentation.

CoSORT is available for evaluation (free) and licensing (hardware-based price points) from any IRI agent worldwide. Click here to request more information on CoSORT.