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Recent CoSORT Releases
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| Version
number |
Release date |
Top Enhancements and/or Corrections
Covered
|
Notes Link |
| 8.1.1 |
11/20/02 |
Major UNIX sort throughput (speed)
improvement |
readme
8.1.1 |
| 4 output disposition options
when input empty |
| UNICODE data type (collation support) |
| New SortCL API [SortCL_routine()] |
| More flexible user exits |
| Server centric-licensing
on UNIX, source code tags |
| 8.1.2 |
04/20/03 |
Improved CSV support |
readme
8.1.2 |
| First Windows CoSORT V8 Release, Java GUI updated |
| New formatting options for JCL sort
parm
converters (mvs2scl, vse2scl) |
| New data-rounding functions (precompile
options, depending on O/S and job needs) |
| Buffer Insufficient memory error addressed |
| 8.1.3 |
10/20/03 |
New BIT data type |
readme
8.1.3 |
| Support for record lengths up to 64KB |
| New "FRAME" attribute (for CSV fields,
FACT compatibility) |
| New Informatica AEP replaces for Sorter
Tx |
| ACUCOBOL Vision file collation and conversion |
| 8.2.1 |
07/20/04 |
Notable Windows sort speed
improvement; minor UNIX transform speed improvement |
readme
8.2.1 |
| Updates to MF COBOL sort replacements, DataStage
PlugIn, Informatica AEP |
| New SortCL formatting features:
multi-character separators, left and right
field trimming (format alignment), /TAILSKIP, READ, WRITE
functions;
ASCII substring processing. SortCL /RC (=/DEBUG) command. |
| New cosortrc parameters for users upgrading
from prior v6 & 7 versions
that had SortCL-scripting and API-calling incompatibilities
with version 8 |
| 8.2.2 |
02/10/05 |
Introduction of iscompares
and find and replace functionality in SortCL |
readme
8.2.2 |
| cob/csv/elf2scl utilities renamed to *ddf;
ctl2ddf introduced for SQL*Loader metadata |
| Updates to ACUCOBOL sort
replacements. New Linux, AIX, Solaris, FreeBSD ports. |
| More SortCL formatting features: multi-character
separators; field length detection |
| Updates to FACT and RowGen
products |
| 8.2.3 |
09/10/05 |
SortCL cross-datestamp
interval calculation and datestamp +/- value derivation |
readme
8.2.3 |
Support for spaces
within Windows file names and hyphens in SortCL field names |
| 10 MFISAM /PROCESS types (Micro
Focus COBOL Index Sequential Access Method file formats) recognized
for collation and cross-conversions in SortCL |
| Enhanced precision
for displaying delimited numeric fields in SortCL /OUTFILEs |
| CoSORT compatible with Fedora
Core, Asianux and Gentoo Linux |
