CoSORT Announces Support for Acucorp's Vision File System
Direct Sorting and Transformation of ACUCOBOL-GT Vision
Index File Format
MELBOURNE, Fla.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Dec. 4, 2003--CoSORT /
Innovative Routines International (IRI), Inc. now supports
Acucorp Inc.'s Vision file system, part of the
ACUCOBOL-GT® development suite, on Windows®
and Solaris™ platforms -- with other UNIX flavors to
follow shortly. This support enables ACUCOBOL-GT users to
sort Vision files, convert a Vision file to another output
file format, create a Vision file from input in another format,
and combine these and other data manipulation operations in
the same I/O pass -- all using CoSORT's Sort Control Language
(SortCL) or SortCL_routine (API).
CoSORT is able to provide this support as a result of its membership
in Acucorp's Complementary Technology Program, an annual program
for third-party tool vendors who develop and market software
solutions that complement Acucorp's extend(R) family of technologies.
"By combining the unique features of our Vision file system
with CoSORT's well-known sorting and manipulation capabilities,
we can offer companies the benefit of a high-performance data
processing suite for file sorting, transformation, and reporting,"
says Drake Coker, Acucorp's Co-Founder and Chief Scientist.
CoSORT's support of the Vision file system means that ACUCOBOL-GT
users can work with data housed in legacy applications, and
bridge their legacy COBOL systems with relational databases
and data warehouses. "With CoSORT, these developers can
produce highly-formatted and readable (detail and summary) reports
based on Vision file data," explains David Friedland, CoSORT
/ IRI's Vice President of Business Development. CoSORT's support
of the Vision file system also provides Acucorp's customers
with "better options for mainframe sort migrations to open
systems, accelerated database and data warehousing, and sorting
capabilities beyond the COBOL sort verb," he adds. CoSORT
users can process data within or outside of COBOL programs --
in batch scripts based originally on JCL.
About CoSORT / IRI, Inc.
CoSORT/IRI Inc. is the world's leading provider of high-performance,
high-volume data sorting and manipulation software on UNIX and
Windows platforms. For 25 years, IRI has created and expanded
"open systems standards" for speed, ease, versatility
and value with its flagship CoSORT solution set for data centers.
CoSORT accelerates commercial and government data processing
applications, including mainframe sort and data migration, database
utility operations, data warehouse ETL, report generation, and
many third-party software applications. CoSORT users include
American Airlines, Bank of America, Blue Cross, CIGNA, DHL,
EDS, Fidelity Investments, and The Hartford. CoSORT agents are
in 30 countries. Additional information about CoSORT is available
at http//www.cosort.com.
About Acucorp, Inc.
Founded in 1988 and celebrating its 15th anniversary, Acucorp,
Inc. is a privately held company headquartered in San Diego,
California, with additional offices in Great Britain, France,
Germany and the Netherlands. Acucorp's products are distributed
in more than 75 countries throughout the world, and its technology
users include Ford Argentina, Red Cross Belgium, Sanyo Extended
Data Systems, Seagram Americas, Siemens, The Gap, The Travelex
Group (formerly Thomas Cook), Tower Records and Warner Music
Group. The company continues to design, develop, and market
robust solutions for extending the life of inherited COBOL applications.
Additional information about Acucorp is available at http://www.acucorp.com.
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CoSORT and SortCL are trademarks of Innovative Routines International
(IRI), Inc. Acucorp, ACUCOBOL and extend are registered trademarks
of Acucorp, Inc. All other trademarks used are the property
of their respective owners.
Editorial Contacts:
CoSORT / IRI Inc., US Marketing:
Lisa Mangino, 321-777-8889, ext. 224
E-mail: lisam@cosort.com
Acucorp, Inc.
Marketing Communications Specialist:
Kendra Brunje, 858-689-4435
E-mail: kbrunje@acucorp.com
