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CoSort Version 9

Sort, Convert, Protect, Create COBOL Files

CoSort provides the tools, libraries, and documented examples you need to achieve a wide range of COBOL data migration and processing goals on open systems. With CoSort, you can:

Sort & Convert COBOL Data Types

All CoSort interfaces support MF and RM COBOL data type collation and SortCL also handles data type conversion:
• Solutions > Data Transformation > Sort/Merge
• Solutions > Data Transformation > Type-Convert
CoSort can also sort EBCDIC and ASCII data in EBCDIC order and convert to and from EBCDIC data while sorting. CoSort includes a COBOL copybook translation tool to leverage your file layouts in SortCL jobs; and, JCL sort parm conversion tools to leverage your MVS and VSE cards:
• Solutions > Sort Migration

Accelerate Native Sort Calls

You already know that CoSort is faster than your compiler's built-in sort function. Do you know how many methods CoSort includes to improve COBOL sort performance?
• Sort replacement for ACUCOBOL-GT
• Sort replacement for Micro Focus COBOL
• Serial and concurrent system calls to SortCL
• Static and dynamic API calls to CoSort libraries

Sort & Convert Index, Var Length & Blocked Files

CoSort's SortCL tool can perform multiple manipulations and conversions on ACUCOBOL-GT Vision files, Micro Focus variable length records, and I-SAM files. In the SortCL (4GL) job script, you define your input and output file formats and record layouts, along with your data filtering and transformation (sort, join, aggregate, etc.). You can merge these files with files in other formats at the same time, and write output files in the same or different format:
• Solutions > Data Transformation
• Solutions > File Interchange > ACUCOBOL Vision
• Solutions > File Interchange > MF COBOL

Generate Reports

CoSort's SortCL has a wide range of reporting features you can exploit to customize detail and summary targets for presentation and hand-offs to other tools:
• Solutions > Business Intelligence > Reporting Functions

Protect Sensitive Data

Either as a separate process, or in combination with the above SortCL activities, you can also employ field-level protection functions like encryption and de-identification:
• Solutions > Field Protection

Create Safe COBOL Test Files

CoSort's RowGen product uses SortCL metadata to define the layout of COBOL index and sequential files containing randomly generated or selected test data:
• Solutions > Test Data & Files

Audit Data & Applications

For data governance and stewardship efforts, SortCL also offers several logging options:
• Solutions > Data Governance > Data and App Auditing

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