Benchmark tests show dramatic performance advantages when PROC MFX is used instead of PROC SORT:
- 40% reduction in task CPU time
- 25% less elapsed time
- Requires no changes to existing programs using PROC SORT
Additional performance advantages translate into significant cost savings.
- In sub-capacity pricing environments, lowering CPU utilization for SAS applications that run during the four-hour peak window is critically important for containing overall software costs.
- Saved CPU time delays hardware upgrades in the face of increasing data volumes.
- Freed-up capacity lets you do more with less by supporting new workloads with the same resources.
- More efficient SAS sorting supports more work on an MSU-capped LPAR.
- Lowering CPU time results in lower fees for organizations that are charged based on CPU utilization for mainframe hosting or outsourcing.
- The ability to meet SLAs and batch window requirements reduces risk and associated costs to the business.
PROC MFX allows Syncsort MFX to use all of its proprietary sorting algorithms and dynamic optimization techniques directly to improve SAS sorting and overall system efficiency. Although Syncsort MFX users benefit from Syncsort’s sophisticated sort processing for SAS applications even when PROC SORT is used,
only the unique functionality of PROC MFX delivers significant additional CPU and elapsed time savings, as noted above.