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Sort, Convert, Protect, Create COBOL Files

IRI's CoSort package 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 package interfaces support MF and RM COBOL data type collation. See:

• Sort/Merge

CoSort can also sort EBCDIC data, and convert to and from EBCDIC data while sorting. In fact, both CoSort and IRI's new NextForm product convert between all COBOL and other popular data types. See:

• Type-Convert

Both products also include a COBOL copybook translator (called cob2ddf) to translate FD layouts into data definition files that any IRI product can use at runtime.

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 in the CoSort package improve COBOL sort performance? See:

• Sort replacement for ACUCOBOL-GT
• Sort replacement for Micro Focus COBOL
• Serial/concurrent system calls to SortCL
• Static and dynamic API calls to CoSort

Convert Index, Variable Length & Blocked Files

The CoSort product's SortCL program, and IRI's NextForm product, can translate between ACUCOBOL-GT Vision files, Micro Focus variable length records, and I-SAM files. Simply define your input and output file formats and record layouts.

In SortCL, however, you can add data filtering, transformation (sort, join, aggregate, etc.), reporting, and protection functions. You can merge COBOL files with files in other formats at the same time, and write output files in one or more formats. See:

• Data Transformation
• ACUCOBOL Vision
• MF COBOL

Generate Reports

The CoSort product's SortCL program offers a wide range of reporting features you can use to customize detail and summary targets for presentation, change data capture (delta reporting) and/or hand-offs to other BI tools. See:

• Reporting Functions

Protect Sensitive Data

Either as a separate process, or in combination with the above CoSort SortCL activities, you can also employ field-level data masking functions like encryption and de-identification for index and flat files requiring data-centric privacy. See:

• Field Protection

Create Safe COBOL Test Files

IRI's RowGen product uses the same metadata as SortCL does (along with available copybooks) to define the layout of index and sequential files containing randomly generated or selected test data. See:

• Test Data & Files

Audit Data & Applications

For data governance and stewardship efforts, the CoSort SortCL program produces several job logging options. See:

• Data and App Auditing

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