CoSort Options for Legacy Sort Replacement and Conversion

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Legacy Sort Migrations

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Challenges:

Many software systems and langauges contain sorting functions. Do you rely on the sort verb that comes with your operating system, compiler, database or desktop application? If so, are you satisfied with its performance and flexibility? Have you ever wondered if a more powerful engine was available that would simply "plug into" and "play" in your current environment?

Or, perhaps you are relying on mainframe JCL cards and need to move sort, merge, select, sum or ICETOOL reporting operations onto Unix, Linux or Windows. Mainframe MVS and VSE JCL steps -- including the parms for sorting, selection, and summing -- are cryptic, functionally limited, and not extensible on open systems.

The challenge in either case is to find the closest replacement, or the most seamless migration available. You also need the fastest possible runtimes, precisely the same output results, a reliable vendor dedicated to the success of your transition and production operations, and a platform that modernizes and delivers related data transformation, reporting, conversion, and security options at the same time.

Solutions:

IRI engineers have continually developed, delivered, and improved upon sort migration technologies that run on all open systems platforms. CoSort package includes several drop-in sort replacement engines, and free sort job conversion tools (for z/OS and SyncSort Unix users, for example) to assist you.

These utilities successfully upgrade many third-party sort functions, and translate legacy sort parms to CoSort Sort Control Language (SortCL) programs on open systems. 30 years of innovative performance and functional development on open systems can also mean faster production of the same results, and new metadata for concurrent data processing, presentation, protection, and prototyping.

Click on the links to your left to see CoSort's migration solutions for other sort functions.

Case Studies

White Papers

Mainframe Migration Experts with CoSort Experience Include:

Atos Origin
Blue Phoenix
Capgemini
Clerity
Cognizant
Datamatics
EDS
IBM
Mainline
Metaware
Satyam
Sungard
Tetrad
Transoft
Unisys

CoSort tools convert and modernize legacy sorts and data sets.

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