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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
PowerBSORT handles
a variety of file types. It sorts and merges C-ISAM files and NetCOBOL
files directly on UNIX platforms
(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.
PowerBSORT
Features
- SORT – sort
records in a specified sequence
- MERGE- merge
sorted records
- COPY - output
records from one file to another
- Record Selection
- select records to SORT, MERGE or COPY
- Record Reconstruction
- pick up the specified field of an input record, and reconstruct
the record during sorting, merging or copying
- Same Key
- during SORT or MERGE you can output records according to the
input order, delete all records except only one record, combine
records into one record by summing up the summary field values
for the records with the same key.
- Supported
Files - NetCOBOL files, C-ISAM files, UNIX files
- Codes sets:
- ASCII code (compares as 8 bits)
- Extended UNIX code (compares in collating sequence according to locale in SVR4 MNLS)
- Unicode
- Specific data types:
- Fixed point binary numbers (C integer type)… Big Endian/Little Endian
- Floating point binary numbers
- Packed decimal numbers
- COBOL external decimal numbers
Detailed
Features and Benefits
The table below
lists key features and benefits of PowerBSORT. |
