IRI, The CoSort Company

IRI delivers ELF and other file conversion functionality in two packages, which you can choose based on the level of need:

ELF File Conversion Only
Now available from IRI is a low-cost, data migration product called NextForm. NextForm allows you to convert files in LDIF to other formats (like CSV, XML, text, etc.) or from the other formats on the left into LDIF. 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.

ELF File Conversion and Processing
ELF file manipulation, reporting, integration with other files, and data webhouse staging are all possible with IRI's CoSort data manipulation package, and its Sort Control Language (SortCL) program in particular.

Using a simple 4GL to define the layout and manipulation of your log files, SortCL runs and combines ELF Data:

• Transformations (scrub, sort, join, group, etc.)
• Conversions (data types, record layouts, files)
• Protections (field-level encryption, de-ID, etc.)
• Reporting (custom detail, delta and summaries)

plus validation, pattern matching, custom tasks, etc. in the same job script and I/O pass. With SortCL, you can map one or more input files in one more more formats to one or more detail or summary reports, and/or hand off filtered subsets to clickstream analysis tools.

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

To facilitate web log conversion and processing both the the CoSort and NextForm packages include a metadata translator called ELF2DDF, for "Extended Log Format to Data Definition File." This utility parses the header information from a W3C ELF web log and produces a data definition file (.ddf) you can use for NextForm reformatting, SortCL manipulation, or RowGen test data generation job scripts.