Faster COBOL Sorting

 

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Overview bin/sort JCL SORT Micro Focus COBOL Natural SAS UniKix

Challenges


You would like to seamlessly improve your sort performance in an MF COBOL Enterprise Server, Server Express, Net Express, or Workbench environment; i.e., without making any changes to your programs.

You may also want a callable sort utility or API library for embedded data transformation and reporting to offload certain COBOL program bottlenecks.

Solutions


Drop-in Sort Replacement

IRI's CoSort package includes libraries that hook seamlessly to Micro Focus COBOL on Unix and Windows systems, improving the native sort speeds up to 6 times with no source code changes.

Callable Acceleration

MF COBOL users can also call CoSort utility programs and APIs to improve sorting, transformation, and reporting performance directly from applications written in MF COBOL.

MFVL, MF-ISAM, and Vision File Handling

CoSort collates, converts, and creates MF COBOL Variable Length records, MF-ISAM, and Vision index file format, to and from other file formats.

COBOL Data Type Conversion

CoSort and NextForm tools can also process and convert ACUCOBOL, Micro Focus, and RM COBOL data types (including packed and zoned decimal). Convert between these types and to and from other data types such as ASCII, Numeric and Unicode.


COBOL Copybook Translation

CoSort leverages your existing metadata and saves time in the creation of SortCL job scripts through a file dictionary (FD) translation utility called 'cob2ddf.' Short for COBOL-to-DDF, this free command line utility converts copybook descriptions into the equivalent data definition file (.DDF) layouts.

Incorporate and re-use DDF metadata in:

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