ACUCOBOL-GT Index File Processing. Convert Vision to CSV, ISAM to Vision. Sort Vision Files.

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ACUCOBOL-GT Vision Files

Do you need to Process or Convert Vision Data?

Challenge:

The ACUCOBOL Vision index file format is proprietary and not human readable. It may be used on mainframe or open systems and require collation (sorting) and other processing, and ultimately, conversion to or from other file formats.

Solutions:

IRI's membership in Acucorp, Inc.'s Complementary Technology Program (CTP) helped enable CoSort for the sorting, manipulatation, reporting, and cross-conversion of ACUCOBOL-GT's Vision indexed file format. IRI now delivers Vision file conversion functionality in two packages, which you can choose depending on the level of your need:

Vision File Conversion Only
Now available from IRI is a low-cost, data migration product called NextForm. NextForm allows you to convert files in Vision to other formats (like CSV, LDIF, MF-COBOL ISAM or Variable Length, text, etc.) or from those other formats into Vision. NextForm also supports data type conversion at the field level, and the remapping of record layouts.

Note that NextForm file definitions will work in SortCL so that you can re-use your metadata if you someday want to upgrade to CoSort's fast transformation, custom reporting, and/or data-centric protection functions.

Vision File Processing & Conversion
With the CoSort package's SortCL tool, you can:

• Process (sort, etc.) Vision files
• Convert a Vision file to another file format
• Create a Vision file from another file format
• Combine transforms and conversions in one pass

Each of these formatting and manipulation functions can occur with or without processing other file formats simultaneously.
CoSort makes all of these actions - one or more at a time - available to data architects who need to work with CSV, XML, LDIF, ISAM, Vision, text and other large flat files.

To convert from Vision to CSV for example -- in either NextForm or CoSort (SortCL) -- your job script input file declaration would be /PROCESS=Vision, and on output it could be PROCESS=CSV, etc. At the same time, you can specify different field layouts and data types on output as needed.

Vision Test Data
Do you need test data in Vision file formats? If so, see IRI's RowGen product. RowGen uses the same layout metadata as CoSort and NextForm so you can easily move between test data generation and real data transformation.

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