Ahlbrandt Software, Inc.
Developers of Ahlsort: The General Purpose Sort/Merge Data Manipulation Utility

Updated: March 8, 2010

• Bug fix related to summing Zoned Decimal (ZD) and Packed Decimal (PD) fields. This only affected the Windows Version of Ahlsort.
  
• Bug fix related to the display of Input and Output record counts on 32-bit Windows Platforms. This did not affect the data file output, only the formatting of the message.
  

• Support for the CORE=nG where n is an integer. This allows the more convenient specification of larger amounts of memory in 64-bit environments.
  For example:

   OPTION CORE=6G
   RECORD TYPE=F,LENGTH=256
   SORT FIELDS=(1,8,CH,A)
   END
  

  will attempt to allocate 6 Gigabytes of main memory for sorting.
  
• Support for the Y2C Sort Field Data Format.
  
• Support for the IFTHEN Statement.
  
• Data File Join Support similar to SyncSort for Unix.
  
• The following SyncSort Unix Style Statements are supported:
  

  /INFILE
  /JOINKEYS
  /JOIN
  /KEYS
  /OUTFILE
  /REFORMAT
  /COLLATINGSEQUENCE
  /FIELDS
  /STATISTICS
  /WARNINGS
  /SUMMARIZE
  /STABLE
  /INCLUDE
  /OMIT
  /CONDITION
  /WORKSPACE
  /END
  

• SyncSort Unix Style Control information can be specified as follows:
  

   ahlsort /INSERT controlFileName
  

  Where controlFileName is the name of a file containing SyncSort for Unix-style control statements.
  

Scope of Operation

• Native Unix applications where a strong yet affordable high performance sort and formatting utility is needed
• Migration and re-hosting projects, transparently embedded in a batch-JCL-runtime like J2U, where Ahlsort's strict compatibility to DFSort on the mainframe shines. In combination with J2U, Ahlsort can significantly reduce efforts, cost and risks when transferring mainframe batch applications to a Unix platform, due to reduce CPU peaks and/or operational costs.

Performance

Features

Release Status

The current production version of Ahlsort is 9. This release has a number of powerful features.

Product Evaluation

If you need more time to effectively evaluate the extensive features of Ahlsort, just let us know and we can provide an extension.

To evaluate the performance of the Ahlsort sorting software, you can simply download the fully functional trial version.

For questions or pricing, send an e-mail to sales@ahlsort.com.

Files Available for Download

Ahlsort Installation

To Install Ahlsort for Windows:

• Download the appropriate Windows zip file
• Using WinZip or equivalent decompression utility, unzip the file.
• The zip file contains a single executable file: ahlsort.exe
• Copy the ahlsort.exe executable file c:\ahlsort or a directory of your choice.
• From the Windows Command Prompt, enter c:\ahlsort\ahlsort " control information" inputFile outputFile

To Install Ahlsort for Unix:

• Download the appropriate .gz Unix file
• The .gz file contains a single executable file: ahlsort
• enter gunzip gzfileName.tar.gz
• enter tar -xvf gzfileName.tar
• Copy ahlsort executable file /usr/local/bin or a directory of your choice: cp ahlsort /usr/local/bin/
• From the Unix shell prompt, enter /usr/local/bin/ahlsort " control information" inputFileName outputFileName

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