Re-Sort

Rehost Mainframe Batch Sort Jobs in the Cloud

Re-Sort allows customers running DFSORT, SYNCSORT or CA-SORT on IBM/z platforms to transparently migrate mainframe batch sort jobs to a cloud environment.

Features

Supported Data Types

• EBCDIC
• Packed Decimal (COMP-3)
• Binary
• and all other IBM/z data types

Supported File Formats

• IBM/z Fixed, Fixed Blocked
• IBM/z Variable, Variable Blocked with RDW
• MicroFocus Enterprise Server Native Fixed and Variable
• Newline Delimited (Unix, Windows, Mac)
• No reasonable limit on input file size

Benefits

• No file conversions required
• No control card changes
• No training required for existing developers
• Significantly lower licensing costs than Mainframe alternatives

Compatibility

• Greater compatibility with DFSORT features, quirks and idiosyncrasies than any product on the market
• Binary output files are identical to mainframe results
• Support for DFSORT ICETOOL scripts
• Support for DFSORT SYMNAMES
• Support SYNCSORT XSUM statement

Implementation Details

• Re-Sort is implemented as a Linux® Virtual Machine running the AHLSORT software
• Offers convenient procurement, licensing, deployment and billing through your cloud provider
• Convenient "Pay As You Go" License download

Cloud Service Providers

• Google Cloud - Target Date Q4 of 2024
• Microsoft Azure - Planned
• Amazon Web Services - Planned