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Fast MF COBOL Sort Replacements 
Faster Sorting, Multiple Interfaces
Challenges:
You would like to seamlessly improve your sort performance in an MF COBOL Server Express, Net Express or Workbench environment; i.e. without making any changes to your programs. You may also want a callable sort utility or API library for embedded data transformation and reporting.

Solutions:
Drop-in Sort Replacement
CoSort provides libraries that hook seamlessly to Micro Focus COBOL on Unix and Windows systems, improving the native sort speeds up to 6 times with no source code changes.

Callable Acceleration
MF COBOL users can also call CoSort utilities programs and APIs to improve sorting, transformation, and reporting performance directly from applications written in MF COBOL. CoSort supports the collation, conversion and creation of MF COBOL data types.

MFVL and ISAM Handling
Through IRI's membership in the Micro Focus Tech Link program, CoSort also supports the collation, conversion and creation of MF COBOL Variable Length records and ISAM index file format, to and from other file formats.

COBOL Data Type Conversion
In addition to file format translations, CoSort's SortCL tool can also process and convert all ACUCOBOL, Micro Focus and RM COBOL data types (including packed and zoned decimal). You can convert between these types and to and from each other data types such as ASCII, Numeric and Unicode.

COBOL Copybook Translation
CoSort leverages your existing metadata and saves time in the creation of SortCL job scripts through a file dictonary (FD) translation utility called 'cob2ddf.' Short for COBOL-to-DDF, this free command line utility automatically converts the copybook descriptions of your input and/or output files into the equivalent data defintion file (.ddf) layouts for immediate inclusion or repository use in CoSort SortCL applications.

See also:
Solutions > Sort Migration
Solutions > Sort Migration > ACUCOBOL-GT
Solutions > Data Transformation > Sort/Merge
Solutions > File Interchange > MF COBOL
Solutions > Data Transformation > Type-Convert
Products > CoSort > SortCL
Products > CoSort > COBOL Tools
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