MVS to Unix Sort Migration. CoSort's MVS2SCL JCL Parm Conveter.

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MVS Sort Migration

Proven Conversion and Performance in JCL Sort Rehosting Projects

Challenges:

You need to re-host, and eventually expand from, your legacy sort product operations when migrating to open systems. MVS (z/OS) JCL sort steps will not work in a Unix shell or Windows command line environment. Parm conversion will be necessary.

You are looking for functional equivalence, equal or better sorting performance, lower operational costs, a more modern application syntax, and support for more data transformation and reporting functionality.

Solutions:

The CoSort package's Sort Control Language (SortCL) program is the destination for sort parms written for MVS JCL sort software, first propagated by IBM in DF-SORT.

CoSort provides a free sort card conversion utility called MVS2SCL to translate the relevant sort (select, sum, etc.) steps from a JCL stream into a functionally-equivalent SortCL job specification file that will run on Unix, Linux and Windows. Metadata is converted and accommodations are made for multiple output and data types. This advanced z/OS to Unix sort conversion utility also sets up job scripts that can leverage the full range of CoSort data transformation, conversion, reporting, and protection functionality for your production data sets.

Beyond rehosting lies a wide range of available data transformation, reporting, protection, and prototyping functionality that allows you to consider more operational possibilities subsequent to the migration, within the same product, at no additional charge.

Mainframe Migration Experts with CoSort Experience Include:

Atos Origin
Blue Phoenix
Capgemini
Clerity
Cognizant
Datamatics
EDS
IBM
Mainline
Metaware
Satyam
Sungard
Tetrad
Transoft
Unisys

CoSort tools convert and modernize legacy sorts and data sets.

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