Sort, merge, join and transform
AHLSORT runs your existing DFSORT and Syncsort MFX control statements on Linux and Windows. Same syntax, same record formats, same output. No rewrite.
Most organizations are not switching off the mainframe overnight. They are moving workloads, or cutting what the mainframe costs to run. Sort is usually the largest single step in batch, and AHLSORT lets you move it without touching the jobs around it.
Your DFSORT and Syncsort MFX control statements run as they are. Decades of proven batch logic stay exactly where they are.
Mainframe record formats, EBCDIC and packed decimal handled natively, so downstream systems see the result they always saw.
Less conversion work, less testing, and no mainframe sort licensing on the workloads you move.
Three steps from a mainframe job to the same job on Linux or Windows.
Take the control statements and data your mainframe jobs already use. Fixed, variable and IBM-V records, EBCDIC or ASCII.
Install a single compact executable on Linux or Windows. Run it from the command line, from your scheduler, or call it from Java or C/C++.
Check the output against your mainframe run. When it matches, you move the job and switch off the mainframe step.
Linux, Windows, virtual machines and cloudOn premises or in the cloud, on physical servers, virtual machines or containers. AHLSORT is a single compact executable, so it goes wherever the rest of the workload goes.
Broad support for DFSORT and Syncsort MFX control statements, including the report writing and utility features large shops depend on.
AHLJSORT can service batch JCL sort calls from Micro Focus Enterprise Server and can be set up as an alias for SORT, so your JCL barely changes.
* Your existing control statements, unchanged SORT FIELDS=(1,10,CH,A,11,4,PD,D) INCLUDE COND=(20,2,CH,EQ,C'NY') OUTREC FIELDS=(1,30,C' ',31,8,ZD, EDIT=(TTT,TTT.TT)) $ ahlsort payroll.srt input.file.dat output.file.dat Completed. Output matches the mainframe run.
Used by hundreds of installations across banking, insurance, government, healthcare and data services, with clients and deployments in:
Plus further installations across Europe and Latin America. Among them is a global tier-1 bank, where AHLSORT runs in production.
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