Mainframe DFSORT/SYNCSORT
This course provides a comprehensive understanding of the Mainframe SORT utility, including data handling, manipulation, reformatting, filtering, and report creation. By learning the basics and various keywords, you can efficiently process files and data with minimal effort. This knowledge is valuable for reducing the time and effort required for tasks such as sorting, filtering, and formatting data. Whether you are a Mainframe developer, tech lead, or architect, this course will enhance your skills and make your daily tasks more efficient. Basic Mainframe and JCL knowledge is required.
What you’ll learn
- How to use Mainframe SORT utility (DFSORT/SYNCSORT)
- Understand data handling and manipulation using SORT
- Reformatting data in Mainframe using SORT
- Filtering data using SORT utility
- Report creation using SORT utility
What Will I Learn?
You will be learning basics of SORT utility and understanding it’s usage. We will be giving you full details on all highly used SORT keywords that will help you to process file/data with ease. The course covers basics of SORT along with real data examples for each keyword. Along with this some frequently required data processing requirements are covered with examples.
How and where SORT knowledge will come in handy?
SORT knowledge does help in reducing efforts required with file/data manipulation. A number of data related actions such as sorting, filtering, manipulation, formatting, reformatting etc can be completed using SORT utility with minimal efforts.
As the SORT utility is fully developed, scope of it is very large. For a number of file/data requirement can be achieved with few lines of SORT statement instead of writing 1000 lines of COBOL code. Having knowledge of SORT will help you performing your daily tasks more efficiently.
By taking this course you will feel confident to use SORT utility and perform different data handling actions.
Course content is as follows:
Overview of SORT Utility
SORT Basics
SORT Syntax
SORT Keywords
SORT FIELDS Keyword
MERGE FIELDS Keyword
Skipping Records (SKIPREC/STOPAFT)
INCLUDE Keyword
OMIT Keyword
INREC – BUILD/FIELDS
INREC – OVERLAY
INREC – FINDREP
INREC – IFTHEN
OUTREC – BUILD/FIELDS
OUTREC – OVERLAY
OUTREC – FINDREP
OUTREC – IFTHEN
JOIN KEYS
Arithmetic Operations using SORT
HEADER/TRAILER Keyword
Report creation using SORT
Transforming Data
VB/FB file conversion and VB File handling
Prerequisites?
Basic Mainframe knowledge
Basic JCL knowledge
Who this course is for:
- Mainframe Developers
- Mainframe Tech Leads
- Mainframe Architect
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