Syncsort Announces SyncSort MVS Release 3.7; Unique Parallel Input Technique Improves Elapsed Time Up To 33%.WOODCLIFF LAKE Woodcliff Lake may refer to:
n. The measured duration of an event. Noun 1. elapsed time - the time that elapses while some event is occurring by as much as 33%. Additional performance improvements for all sorts, Year 2000 support, and new productivity features are also included. PARASORT: Input Performance Breakthrough As hardware limitations are reached in sort processing, these limitations become a performance bottleneck. To break this bottleneck for sorts with input from large multi-volume tape data sets and concatenated tape data sets, Syncsort developed a new parallel input technique called PARASORT, which allows SyncSort to read input from two, three, or four tape drives simultaneously. PARASORT can improve input elapsed time performance up to 20% when two volumes are processed in parallel and up to 33% when four volumes are processed. Translated into real terms, a SyncSort job reading four parallel input streams with PARASORT logic can shrink a three hour sort to two hours. Additional Performance Improvements For All Sorts General algorithmic and optimization enhancements in Release 3.7 have improved SyncSort performance over DFSORT DFSORT Data Facility Sort DFSORT DeFault Sort Release 14.0. When SyncSort is used, TCB See trusted computing base. 1. (jargon) TCB - Trouble Came Back. 2. (security) TCB - (Orange Book) Trusted Computing Base. 3. (operating system) TCB - Task Control Block. CPU time The amount of time it takes for the CPU to execute a set of instructions and generally excludes the waiting time for input and output. CPU time - processor time is reduced by 35%, total CPU time by 44%, and EXCPs by 39%. In addition, significant gains have been made in the processing of COBOL-invoked sorts. Year 2000 Support Included Although SyncSort is Year 2000 ready, special features have been added to help users remediate sort and other applications for the Year 2000. New Y2K-specific data formats and a user-defined century window allow the correct interpretation of two-digit years and conversion to four-digit years when required. SyncSort can be used to select production data for test cases and age date fields. It can also replace 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. programs that select, summarize, reformat (1) To change the record layout of a file or database. (2) To initialize a disk over again. , and report on various types of data, saving considerable remediation time. Productivity Enhancements SyncSort MVS Release 3.7 can now perform "horizontal arithmetic" between fields and constants within a record, including functions providing minimum and maximum values. The new arithmetic functions and all other SyncSort features and functions can be performed during a single pass over the data. They do not have to be run as separate jobs, saving time on repeated input and output processing. About SyncSort MVS SyncSort MVS is a high-performance, transparent replacement for DFSORT. SyncSort contains sorting algorithms and dynamic optimization techniques to reduce CPU time and EXCPs and improve system throughput. SyncSort also exploits hiperspaces and data spaces to utilize expanded storage Additional memory in IBM mainframes that is not normally addressable by applications. Introduced for the 3090 series, the data are usually transferred in 4K pages from expanded storage to central storage (main memory). See hiperspace. in ESA 1. (architecture) ESA - Enterprise Systems Architecture. 2. (body) ESA - European Space Agency. systems. In addition to data manipulation capabilities such as record selection, reformatting, and summarization, SyncSort can generate multiple output files, including reports, from a single pass of the input data. The MAXSORT facility allows very large sorts to be performed in limited disk space. SyncSort MVS Release 3.7 is available now. About Syncsort Syncsort Incorporated, located in Woodcliff Lake, NJ, is a leading developer of high performance systems software for mainframe, 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). and Windows NT environments. For more than 30 years, Syncsort has built a reputation for superior product performance and efficiency, and for responsive, reliable technical support. Syncsort was recently chosen by readers of DM Review magazine as one of the top 25 data warehousing companies. The SyncSort product is widely used to speed data warehouse staging and database loads. SyncSort software can extract, sort, groom and aggregate data quickly and efficiently in a single operation. Backup Express is Syncsort's high performance backup and restore product for UNIX, Windows NT and Netware. With an intuitive, easy to use graphical interface, Backup Express allows fast back up of databases and data warehouses both on and off line. Over 95 percent of the Fortune 100 companies are Syncsort customers, and Syncsort's products are used in more than 50 countries. Please visit Syncsort on the World Wide Web at http://www.syncsort.com. -0- Syncsort Incorporated 50 Tice Boulevard Woodcliff Lake, NJ 07675 Phone: 201/930-8200 Fax: 201/930-8290 E-mail: info@syncsort.com WWW: http://www.syncsort.com. 
We have Syncsort deployed in our company. This software is so buggy it seems they never tested their software before selling it to the customers. Their sales guy called us 1000 times before selling the software. Now, when we report the problem with their software nobody even care about that.<br><br>Stay away from Syncsort. |
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