• The Sort/Merge utility is a mainframe program to sort records in a file into a specified order, merge pre-sorted files into a sorted file, or copy selected...
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    distribution sorting, which resembles quicksort, and external merge sort, which resembles merge sort. External merge sort typically uses a hybrid sort-merge strategy...
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  • a list of elements Mainframe sort merge, sort utility for IBM mainframe systems Sort (Unix), which sorts the lines of a file Sort (C++), a function in...
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    Wikipedia:Categorization#Sort keys and for sorting of article sections, see WP:ORDER Collation Data processing IBM mainframe sort/merge Unicode collation algorithm Knolling...
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  • bringing mainframe sort merge functionality into open systems. IRI was the first vendor to develop a commercial replacement for the Unix sort command,...
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    A mainframe computer, informally called a mainframe or big iron, is a computer used primarily by large organizations for critical applications like bulk...
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  • simple reports. Sort/merge is important enough that there are multiple companies each selling their own sort/merge package for IBM mainframes, for example...
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  • Springer. ISBN 978-3-540-11157-3. "UW Alum Dr. Gene Amdahl, Pioneer of Mainframe Computing, Dies at 92". Department of Physics. 2015-11-12. Retrieved 2024-09-20...
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  • Precisely (company) (redirect from SyncSort)
    2020. Its original, eponymously named product, SyncSort, was the dominant sort program for IBM mainframe computers during much of the 1970s and 1980s. Precisely...
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  • Anti-Vision and eventually taken into custody. The Earth-691 version of Mainframe is a future counterpart of Vision featured in the title Guardians of the...
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  • manager designed to have an interface that was familiar to those using mainframe SPF and ISPF. Later Microsoft Windows-based versions were named SPF/SE...
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    CA Technologies (redirect from CA-SORT)
    selling in Europe the CA-SORT package as a plug-in replacement for the IBM Sort on IBM System/360 and System/370 mainframe platforms. The firm sought...
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  • ISPF (category IBM mainframe operating systems)
    for many historic IBM mainframe operating systems and currently the z/OS and z/VM operating systems that run on IBM mainframes. It includes a screen editor...
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    programmable ledgers and then computers. It was one of the largest producers of mainframe computers in the world, also producing related equipment including typewriters...
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    RCA Spectra 70 (category Mainframe computers)
    The RCA Spectra 70 is a line of mainframe computers and related electronic data processing (EDP) equipment that was manufactured by the Radio Corporation...
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  • notation is asymptotic. For example, bubble sort may be faster than merge sort when only a few items are to be sorted; however either implementation is likely...
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  • occurred. A more typical use is replacing the user exits provided by a sort/merge package, whereby the user program provides its own subroutines for comparing...
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  • Job Control Language (category IBM mainframe operating systems)
    Job Control Language (JCL) is a scripting language used on IBM mainframe operating systems to instruct the system on how to run a batch job or start a...
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    UNIVAC I (category UNIVAC mainframe computers)
    with instruction execution, permitting high system throughput in typical sort/merge data processing applications. Large volumes of data could be submitted...
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  • a variant of APL, to facilitate migrating APL applications from IBM mainframe computers to a network of Sun workstations. A+ had a smaller set of primitive...
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    of punch-card tabulating systems. During the 1960s and 1970s, the IBM mainframe, exemplified by the System/360 and its successors, was the world's dominant...
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  • seen various implementations ranging from simple desktop mail merge, to complex mainframe applications in the financial and banking industry. In the past...
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  • terms or pieces of computer hardware. Guardian 452 and the defender of Mainframe from both internal and external threats. Bob is often criticized by other...
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    IBM System/360 Model 20 (category IBM System/360 mainframe line)
    it would have been classified as a 16-bit minicomputer rather than a mainframe, but the term "minicomputer" was not current, and in any case IBM wanted...
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    attempted to implement systems like Dungeons & Dragons on university mainframe computers. While initially niche, RPGs would soon become mainstream on...
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    BOS/360 (category IBM mainframe operating systems)
    for FORTRAN IV and COBOL were added later. Autotest, a debugging aid. Sort/Merge. Utility programs for file-to-file copy between devices and formats. Remote...
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    Multics (category General Electric mainframe computers)
    influenced all modern operating systems since, from microcomputers to mainframes." Initial planning and development for Multics started in 1964, in Cambridge...
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  • that no one would have to leave home. The suits are plugged into a huge mainframe called the Grid which also contains tubes for sleeping gas, food, and...
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  • called this robotic warrior Mainframe. Mainframe was brought online when Trolls attacked the young boy Kevin Masterson. Mainframe assembled all of the reserve...
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    tables are sorted using SORT and the MERGE verb merges and sorts files. The RELEASE verb provides records to sort and RETURN retrieves sorted records in...
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