PowerBSORT is a high-powered software product that can be used to sort, merge and copy application data files. The highly optimized sorting techniques employed by PowerBSORT are equally effective for small and very large data files. PowerBSORT offers the developer a variety of interfaces for batch execution and application integration.
Audience
Prior to using PowerBSORT it is assumed that you have the following knowledge:
A basic understanding of Linux.
Basic understandings of COBOL file systems.
For C language integration, an understanding of C language inter-program communications.
Organization of This Documentation
This documentation is organized as follows:
This chapter explains the overview of PowerBSORT, the input output environment and the optional options.
This chapter explains how to run PowerBSORT.
This chapter explains the bsort command and options.
This chapter explains the bsortex command and options.
This chapter explains how to use PowerBSORT in a NetCOBOL program.
This chapter explains how to use PowerBSORT in a C language program.
This chapter explains the output messages of the bsort command, the bsortex command, and the BSORT function, and the error detail codes of the BSORT function.
This section provides sample executions and PowerBSORT coding examples.
This section provides additional notes regarding the operation of PowerBSORT.
Related Manuals
The manual of this product and a related product includes the following manuals besides this document.
PowerBSORT V7.0.0 Release Notes
Product Names
The names of the products described in this guide are abbreviated as follows.
Product name | Abbreviation |
|---|---|
Red Hat(R) Enterprise Linux(R) 7 (for Intel64) Red Hat(R) Enterprise Linux(R) 6 (for Intel64) | Linux |
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October 2014
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