Faster COBOL sorts and reports
CoSort replaces runtime sort verbs and accelerates BI
Accelerate native sort calls
You already know that IRI 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? Details here:
Sort replacement for ACUCOBOL-GT
Sort replacement for MF COBOL Enterprise Server, NetExpress, Server Express and Workbench
Generating reports from COBOL files
The program Sort Control LanguageSortCL) of CoSort not only converts, transforms and protects COBOL files and data types, but can also create custom detail, delta (change) and summary reports. SortCL has a variety of built-in reporting and display functions, similar to those in IBM's COBOL Report Writer and ICETOOL.
SortCL uses a simpler 4GL to define data sources, manipulations, and target layouts. Details here:
Business Intelligence > Report Functions
For those with a sophisticated business intelligence platform such as Cognos or Business Objects, CoSort's SortCL tool is often used to prepare (or "franchise") large volumes of data for them. SortCL filters, converts, sorts, joins, aggregates and formats COBOL files into smaller CSV or XML subsets (or "feeds") that the BI tools can process. This eliminates the overhead of "big data" transformation at the BI layer and the associated data and coding redundancy. Details here:
Business Intelligence > BI Tool Acceleration
Blog: Business Intelligence > Data Franchising