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Visual SyncSort for z/OS is designed to allow programmers and non-programmers alike to easily create and manage SyncSort applications for the mainframe environment.
Visual SyncSort integrates the graphical desktop environment with SyncSort for z/OS to save programmer time while taking full advantage of the processing power of SyncSort, the world's leading high-performance mainframe sort product. The PC provides easy access to SyncSort's powerful features through an intuitive Windows-based graphical user interface. SyncSort for z/OS interprets output from the PC and processes the application.
Visual SyncSort is so simple that even non-programmers can use it. Buttons, pull-down menus, and other aids make navigation easy, and comprehensive context-sensitive Help is always available. Instant error checking provides immediate feedback.
Visual SyncSort generates applications that run correctly the first time, because they are always free of syntax errors.
Visual SyncSort does not require knowledge of sort syntax, so training time for new programmers is reduced dramatically.
Visual SyncSort's data dictionary and interactive design work together in a visual environment that greatly simplifies application development.
Once you identify a field in your record layout by its position, length, and format and define a name for it (or import a COBOL or DB2 file definition with the same information), you simply specify fields by name in your application. Visual SyncSort tracks the position and length of all fields, automatically handling changes in field specifications that occur as a result of output reformatting, data conversion, summarization, arithmetic manipulation, and report writing.
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When you develop an application, Visual SyncSort leads you through a series of dialogs that make SyncSort's powerful features easily available. Based on your responses, Visual SyncSort builds the SyncSort for z/OS control data set for you, so you can concentrate on what you want to do, not how to do it. And Visual SyncSort checks the information you enter as you are building the application, eliminating the need for debugging runs.
Visual SyncSort makes it easy to develop reports because you type features like headers and trailers on your computer screen exactly as you want them in your report.
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You can import existing mainframe applications into Visual SyncSort to enjoy the benefits of modifying them through the Visual SyncSort interface. Visual SyncSort will automatically generate field names and lay out the entire application so you can modify and re-use it quickly and easily.
Visual SyncSort automatically analyzes input and output specifications to create an optimized application that runs fast and minimizes SyncSort's use of system resources.
For every Visual SyncSort application, you get a clearly laid out, consistently formatted application description, rather than cryptic control statements.
Visual SyncSort combines the strength and stability of a mainframe system with the agility of a Windows desktop. This combination provides powerful advantages:
- Lets you quickly create new SyncSort applications or modify existing ones while using familiar Windows interface conventions.
- Makes it easy to use all of SyncSort's special performance features and powerful data manipulation facilities.
- Allows field names to be input directly or imported from COBOL data definitions.
- Refers to all fields by name and eliminates the need to track fields by position and length.
- Always generates applications free of syntax errors, saving hours of tedious debugging.
- Reduces training time and ends the need to train staff in SyncSort for z/OS control statements.
- Automatically delivers a SyncSort application designed for optimal performance.
- Automatically documents all applications in a clear, consistent format.
Download the Visual SyncSort Technical Specifications
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