Value-added products available from Syncsort™ MFX can significantly improve performance:
Syncsort PROCSort - An Accelerator for SAS®Sorting is a high performance, transparent replacement for the SAS procedure PROC SORT. Compared to PROC SORT, Syncsort PROCSort reduces the resources required for sorting within SAS applications and cuts sort elapsed time.
Syncsort PipeSort enables MFX to run multiple sorts simultaneously on the same input data. For large input files, Syncsort PipeSort significantly reduces total elapsed time compared to running separate sort jobs.
Syncsort ZPCopy is a high-performance, transparent replacement for copy processing initiated with SORT FIELDS=COPY (including BetterGener). Syncsort ZPCopy is designed to execute almost all copy jobs on zIIP engines and utilize parallel processing for I/O with Parallel Access Volume (PAV) technology.
Syncsort ZPCompress offloads to zIIP engines the CPU time that is associated with SMS Version 1 compression when reading non-VSAM SORTIN and/or writing non-VSAM non-OUTFIL SORTOUT data sets with SMS compression attributes.
Syncsort ZPSort is a high-performance, transparent replacement for sort processing that executes almost all sort steps on zIIP engines.
Syncsort ZPEncrypt enables the use of SORTWORK encryption in the Sort in zIIP application for offloading CPU time to zIIP engines.
For more detailed information regarding each of these products, see Value-Added Products.