CoSORT Announces Support for Acucorp's Vision File System.Business Editors/High-Tech Writers MELBOURNE, Fla.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Dec. 4, 2003 CoSORT / Innovative Routines International (IRI Iri (ē`rē`), former city, North Jeolla (Cholla) prov., SW South Korea. An agricultural center and transportation hub, it was absorbed into Iksan. ), Inc. now supports Acucorp Inc.'s Vision file system, part of the ACUCOBOL-GT(R) development suite, on Windows(R) and Solaris(TM) platforms -- with other UNIX UNIX Operating system for digital computers, developed by Ken Thompson of Bell Laboratories in 1969. It was initially designed for a single user (the name was a pun on the earlier operating system Multics). flavors to follow shortly. This support enables ACUCOBOL-GT users to sort Vision files, convert a Vision file to another output file format, create a Vision file from input in another format, and combine these and other data manipulation operations in the same I/O (Input/Output) The transfer of data between the CPU and a peripheral device. Every transfer is an output from one device and an input to another. See PC input/output. I/O - Input/Output pass -- all using CoSORT's Sort Control Language (SortCL) or sortcl_routine (API). CoSORT is able to provide this support as a result of its membership in Acucorp's Complementary Technology Program, an annual program for third-party tool vendors who develop and market software solutions that complement Acucorp's extend(R) family of technologies. "By combining the unique features of our Vision file system with CoSORT's well-known sorting and manipulation capabilities, we can offer companies the benefit of a high-performance data processing suite for file sorting, transformation, and reporting," says Drake Coker, Acucorp's Co-Founder and Chief Scientist. CoSORT's support of the Vision file system means that ACUCOBOL-GT users can work with data housed in legacy applications, and bridge their legacy COBOL COBOL: see programming language. COBOL in full Common Business-Oriented Language. High-level computer programming language, one of the first widely used languages and for many years the most popular language in the business community. systems with relational databases and data warehouses. "With CoSORT, these developers can produce highly-formatted and readable (detail and summary) reports based on Vision file data," explains David Friedland, CoSORT / IRI's Vice President of Business Development. CoSORT's support of the Vision file system also provides Acucorp's customers with "better options for mainframe sort migrations to open systems, accelerated database and data warehousing, and sorting capabilities beyond the COBOL sort verb," he adds. CoSORT users can process data within or outside of COBOL programs -- in batch scripts based originally on JCL. About CoSORT/IRI CoSORT/IRI Inc. is the world's leading provider of high-performance, high-volume data sorting and manipulation software on UNIX and Windows platforms. For 25 years, IRI has created and expanded "open systems standards" for speed, ease, versatility and value with its flagship CoSORT solution set for data centers. CoSORT accelerates commercial and government data processing applications, including mainframe sort and data migration, database utility operations, data warehouse ETL, report generation, and many third-party software applications. CoSORT users include American Airlines, Bank of America
Bank of America (NYSE: BAC TYO: 8648 ) is the largest commercial bank in the United States in terms of deposits, and the largest company of its kind in the world. , Blue Cross, CIGNA CIGNA CG (Connecticut General Life Insurance Company) INA (Insurance Company of North America) , DHL, EDS (Electronic Data Systems, Plano, TX, www.eds.com) Founded in 1962 by H. Ross Perot (independent candidate for the President of the U.S. in 1992), EDS is the largest outsourcing and data processing services organization in the country. , Fidelity Investments, and The Hartford. CoSORT agents are in 30 countries. Additional information about CoSORT is available at http://www.cosort.com. About Acucorp Founded in 1988 and celebrating its 15th anniversary, Acucorp, Inc. is a privately held company privately held company A firm whose shares are held within a relatively small circle of owners and are not traded publicly. headquartered in San Diego, California “San Diego” redirects here. For other uses, see San Diego (disambiguation). San Diego is a coastal Southern California city located in the southwestern corner of the continental United States. As of 2006, the city has a population of 1,256,951. , with additional offices in Great Britain, France, Germany and the Netherlands. Acucorp's products are distributed in more than 75 countries throughout the world, and its technology users include Ford Argentina, Red Cross Belgium, Sanyo Extended Data Systems, Seagram Americas, Siemens, The Gap, The Travelex Group (formerly Thomas Cook), Tower Records and Warner Music Group Warner Music Group (WMG) is one of the four major record labels. Warner Music Group also has a publishing arm, Warner/Chappell Music, which dates back to 1929, when Jack Warner, president of Warner Bros. Pictures Inc. . The company continues to design, develop, and market robust solutions for extending the life of inherited COBOL applications. Additional information about Acucorp is available at http://www.acucorp.com. CoSORT and SortCL are trademarks of Innovative Routines International (IRI), Inc. Acucorp, ACUCOBOL and extend are registered trademarks of Acucorp, Inc. All other trademarks used are the property of their respective owners. |
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