Innovative Routines International (IRI), Inc., The CoSort Company

JCL Sorts Migrate to CoSort in UniKix BPE and TPE

Challenges:

As you move from mainframe to open systems, you may be working with Clerity's Mainframe Rehosting Solutions team. One of the components of your migration will likely be the sort package. You need a solution for JCL sort step conversion, VSAM file processing, related data transformation, and reporting services as you migrate mainframe operations to Unix.

Solutions:

IRI's CoSort product is part of the Clerity Mainframe Reference Architecture and a long-proven solution for sort migration, and related JCL parm conversion. Thanks to close collaboration with Clerity and its predecessors, you can leverage the power of CoSort directly within the UniKix Batch Processing Environment (UniKix BPE) and UniKix Transaction Processing Environment (UniKix TPE).

The CoSort packages includes free MVS or VSE sort parm translation tools to create JCL-equivalent job scripts ready for use in CoSort's Sort Control Language (SortCL) program. These translators also map the JCL commands for other legacy sort/merge software functions like: record selection, field reformatting, summing, de-duplication, and data type conversion.

If you are involved in a mainframe migration and require CoSort and related conversion assistance, please contact IRI or Clerity for references and information.