Testimonial
Thank you for allowing me to evaluate your excellent product. In terms of performance it was clearly the best product available on the market. I bench-tested it against a number of other sort utilities and it performed at a minimum of 2.5x the speed of the other programs.
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I am therefore in a position to recognise high quality, and your software is amazing.
XSM : Fast Sort/Merge utility for Professional
- multi-platforms : UNIX AIX, SUN Solaris, HP-UX, Linux, z/Linux, Windows, OS/400 iSeries, OS/390 OpenMVS (UNIX Services)
- Sorts 1 Gigabyte in seconds, not hours ; See our Benchmark reports
- Maximum file size is only limited by Operating System
- Sort, Merge, Selective Copy / Split with "Include/Exclude" filters
- Deduplicate on duplicate keys or records
- Reformat records
- Up to 20 sort keys, any combination of Ascending or Descending sort keys
- Support for fixed format, as well as variable, MFCobol, delimited (CSV), and Binary, Numeric, Char, Packed Decimal types
- "Y2K" dates clever processing (1900/2000 pivot)
- Support for UNIX style pipes and redirection
- IBM® MVS DF/SORT® compatible syntax
- "Wrappers" (dynamic syntax translator) for easy and transparent Syncsort®, MFsort, UNIX sort replacement
- Save CPU, disk, memory resources
What XSM does, but your standard sort does not:
XSM | Linux sort | AIX sort | Windows sort | |
Unlimited File Size | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
Input Filtering | Yes | No | No | No |
Output Filtering on different files | Yes | No | No | No |
Suppress on duplicate keys | Yes | No | Yes | No |
Suppress on duplicate records | Yes | Yes | No | No |
Mixed Ascending and Descending sort keys | Yes | Yes | Yes | No |
Variable field length in records with separator (CSV) | Yes | Yes | Yes | No |
- including numeric fields | Yes | Yes | Yes | No |
- including lowercase=Uppercase | Yes | Yes | Yes | No |
Merge | Yes | Yes | Yes | No |
Binary files | Yes | No | No | No |
- including Packed Decimal | Yes | No | No | No |
Work Files/Disks Control | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
Clever Y2K handling dd/mm/yy -> dd/mm/YYYY | Yes | No | No | No |
Selective Copy/Split | Yes | No | No | No |
F.A.Q.
Is XSM really faster than standard sorts supplied on Operating Systems ? | Yes | |
Is XSM faster than its challengers ? | Yes, see Benchmarks ... | |
Does XSM sorts binary records on Windows ? | Yes | |
Is XSM cheaper than its challengers ? | Yes | |
Who uses XSM ? | +60 clients over 12 pays ! |