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Fujitsu PowerBSORT for Linux, for SPARC Architecture and for HPUX

Fujitsu® PowerBSORT™ significantly shortens the time needed to merge or sort data for business processing. You get rapid, high-performance merging and sorting of large volumes of data without disrupting your current environment. PowerBSORT thus offers a straightforward way to slash response times for merges and sorts.

Highlights: 
  • Improve merge/sort times by as much as 100% over other solutions
  • Boost the efficiency of data searches by loading sorted data into DBMS tables
  • Simplify merge, sort, and copy operations with an easy-to-use interface
  • Speed processing without extra programming effort or disruption to your environment
Benefits: 
  • PowerBSORT handles a variety of file types. It sorts and merges C-ISAM files and NetCOBOL files directly on UNIX platforms (Red Hat Linux, Sun SOLARIS and HP-UX).
  • Additionally, you have flexibility in the way you use PowerBSORT. You can run it via Motif windows and as a command under UNIX. You can also include PowerBSORT in both COBOL and C-language applications.
  • Along with the merge, sort, and copy functions, PowerBSORT provides a record reconstruction feature that creates an output record by relocating and combining fields from the input record with self-defined values. Further, a same-key feature combines values from multiple records into a single record by adding the summation field values when records have the same key field value. The same-key feature is used with the sort or merge functions.
  • All the features of PowerBSORT are easy to use, with menus and a tool bar making choices clear. PowerBSORT gives you more than one way to perform many actions. When specifying a sort key, for example, you can either type the specification or use a specialized dialog box. A key can also be selected from the list of previously specified key fields by clicking PowerBSORT's History button. Detailed on-line help is always available.
  • Tests have shown that PowerBSORT merges and sorts data approximately 30% faster than the sort function in COBOL. You can shorten sort times even more using the PowerBSORT command window. By substituting PowerBSORT for the merge/sort utility you currently use, you gain immediate productivity improvements.