Sort and merge Btrieve and NetCOBOL files on Windows®, Linux, SPARC and HPUX

Sort and merge Btrieve and NetCOBOL files on Windows®, Linux, SPARC and HPUX


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.

PowerBSORT for Windows® handles a variety of file types. It sorts and merges Btrieve files and NetCOBOL files directly on supported Windows® platforms. PowerBSORT can be included in COBOL and C-language applications.

Tests have shown that PowerBSORT merges and sorts data approximately 30% faster than the sort function in COBOL. Slash 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.

Features

  • Sort records in a specified sequence
  • Merge sorted records
  • Output records from one file to another
  • Select records to SORT, MERGE or COPY
  • Pick up the specified field of an input record, and reconstruct the record during sorting, merging or copying
  • Supported Files – NetCOBOL files, Btrieve files, CSV and TSV format files, text files with fields separated by specified character(s),
  • Encoding Types – ASCII, EBCDIC, Unicode (UTF-8, UTF-16)
  • Fixed Point Binary Number (C integer type)… Big Endian/Little Endian
  • Floating Point Binary Number
  • Packed Decimal Number and External Decimal Number in COBOL
  • Sort and merge C-ISAM files and NetCOBOL files directly on UNIX platforms (Red Hat Linux, Sun SOLARIS and HP-UX).
  • FAQ

Benefits

  • 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
  • Boost the efficiency of data searches by loading sorted data into DBMS tables
  • Speed processing without extra programming effort or disruption to your environment