PowerBSORT (Windows, Sparc and Linux)
PowerBSORT significantly shortens the time needed to merge or sort data for business processing. You get rapid, high-performance merging and sorting of large volumes of data without disrupting your current environment. PowerBSORT thus offers a straightforward way to slash response times for merges and sorts.
PowerBSORT for Windows® handles a variety of file types. It sorts and merges Btrieve files and NetCOBOL files directly on supported Windows® platforms. PowerBSORT can be included in COBOL and C-language applications.
Tests have shown that PowerBSORT merges and sorts data approximately 30% faster than the sort function in COBOL. Slash sort times even more using the PowerBSORT command window. By substituting PowerBSORT for the merge/sort utility you currently use, you gain immediate productivity improvements.
Features
- Sort records in a specified sequence
- Merge sorted records
- Output records from one file to another
- Select records to SORT, MERGE or COPY
- Pick up the specified field of an input record, and reconstruct the record during sorting, merging or copying
- Supported Files – NetCOBOL files, Btrieve files, CSV and TSV format files, text files with fields separated by specified character(s)
- Encoding Types – ASCII, EBCDIC, Unicode (UTF-8, UTF-16)
- Fixed Point Binary Number (C integer type), Big Endian/Little Endian
- Floating Point Binary Number
- Packed Decimal Number and External Decimal Number in COBOL
- Sort and merge C-ISAM files and NetCOBOL files directly on UNIX platforms (Red Hat Linux and Sun SOLARIS)
- Benefits
- Improve merge/sort times by as much as 100% over other solutions
- Boost the efficiency of data searches by loading sorted data into DBMS tables
- Simplify merge, sort, and copy operations with an easy-to-use interface
- Speed processing without extra programming effort or disruption to your environment
- Boost the efficiency of data searches by loading sorted data into DBMS tables
- Speed processing without extra programming effort or disruption to your environment