CoSORT Version 7 Ships; High-Performance Sort Package Adds Java GUI, SQL Join, Web Tools.

MELBOURNE, Fla.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Aug. 30, 1999--

Innovative Routines International (IRI), Inc. has announced the release of consort Version 7.0 across all Unix and Windows NT platforms. IRI Business Development VP David Friedland summarizes the benefit: "V7 delivers the upgrade in data warehouse staging functionality and database load performance high volume users demand."

New ETL Functions

CoSORT's sort control language program (sortcl) now also supports: full relational joins (matches), SQL condition syntax, database index sequencing for loads, extended web log and CSV (comma separated values) input, and, html output for web ready reports. These are additions to sortcl's existing data warehouse extraction, transformation and loading (ETL) functionality which already combined selection, data conversion, aggregation, parallel sorting, and output reformatting.

Java GUI

CoSORT 7.0 introduces the sort world's first cross platform GUI. Win32 and Unix Java client users can read and write sortcl data layout and job control files graphically, then launch locally or remotely on Windows NT or Unix servers (wherever sortcl resides) as workloads and resources dictate. Command line, batch and program calls to consort facilities are still supported.

Additional Interfaces

In addition to the sortcl program interfaces, CoSORT 7.0 also includes these user tools:

-- sorti English prompting program for novices running

interactive or batch sorts;

-- sort plug-in replacements for the Unix, DOS, SAS and SAGA

Natural sort verbs;

-- mfsort plug-in replacements for Micro Focus COBOL program and

runtime sorts;

-- jcl2scl command line utility to convert MVS sort parms in JCL

to sortcl;

-- ss2scl command line utility to upgrade SyncSort Unix sort

parms to sortcl; and,

-- API coroutine and subroutine sort calls from C, COBOL, VB,

FORTRAN, etc.

Parallel Sorting on NT

Using CoSORT 7.0, Windows NT users can now thread large sorts across multiple CPUs -- an extension of CoSORT 6 Unix capability. Speed tuning is both automatic and customizable.

CoSORT (short for co-routine sort) is the world's first, fastest, and most widely licensed sort software on open systems, with more than 10,000 end user and runtime installations supported since 1978. V7 is the first major new consort release since IRI introduced the Unix market's first parallel sort in 1996. CoSORT is priced by configuration and licensed once for perpetual use.