Selected Press Releases

Big Data Manipulation & Masking ISV Recognized Two Years in a Row

Melbourne, FL - July 12, 2017 -- Innovative Routines International (IRI, a/k/a The CoSort Company), has once again been listed among the data industry’s top 100 firms by Database Trends and Applications (DBTA) magazine. This is the second year in a row that the data management ISV was included in the “DBTA 100: The Companies That Matter Most in Data”. The list spotlights information technology companies that are meeting evolving marketing demands through innovation in software, services, and hardware. (more...)

IRI and AnalytiX DS to Showcase Combined Capabilities at Enterprise Data World

Melbourne, FL - March 29, 2017 - Business Wire - Innovative Routines International (IRI, The CoSort Company), a leader in fast data management and data-centric protection software, and AnalytiX DS, a leader in data governance, enterprise data mapping and metadata-driven automation software, have announced a strategic partnership that enhances and modernizes data integration and governance technology for information management architects and business users worldwide. The companies will unveil combined functionality and user interfaces in adjacent exhibits at the Dataversity Enterprise Data World conference and expo in Atlanta. (more...)

Will Cap “Philosophy of Data” Podcast Series and Explain IRI Voracity

Melbourne, Fla. (February 15, 2017) - Innovative Routines International (IRI, The CoSort Company), a leading developer of data management and protection software, and The Bloor Group, an independent research firm for objective, high-quality analysis of enterprise information technology, will co-host a webcast called "A Philosophy of Data: Power of the Platform" on Thursday, February 23, 2017, at 4:00 p.m. EST. The webcast will wrap up a series of podcast interviews with independent data management experts, and introduce the IRI Voracity data management platform and its alignment to their philosophies. (more...)

Data-Centric Security Tools to Find, Classify, Mask, and Firewall DBs and Other Data

Melbourne, Fla. (January 26, 2017) - Database Trends and Applications (DBTA) magazine has named the IRI Data Protector Suite to its list of “Trend-Setting Products of 2017.” The suite includes software to find, classify, and protect personally identifiable information (PII) and other sensitive data subject to privacy laws (more...)

Voracity Platform Partners are Growing Technical Depth and Geographic Coverage

Melbourne, Fla. (October 31, 2016) - Innovative Routines International (IRI), The CoSort Company, announced the first 10 in a growing list of new commercial licensing and support offices in Europe, Asia, and North America. IRI is currently building a “deep bench” of new implementation services for its big data management products and one-stop-solution-platform, Voracity. (more...)

IRI Voracity Interface Expands Data Sources, Protection, and Testing for Splunk Data Analysts

Melbourne, Fla. (June 16, 2016) – Innovative Routines International (IRI), The CoSort Company, has created an “add-on” for Splunk that prepares data in Voracity and directly indexes the results in Splunk. Pre-processing and indexing data in one operation creates new performance and ergonomic value for users who need clean, compliant, and reliable analytic data culled from multiple, disparate data sources. (more...)

Data Masking, Test Data, and Management Software Get Profiling, Subsetting, SDKs, etc.

Melbourne, Fla. (March 29, 2016) – Innovative Routines International (IRI), The CoSort Company, has announced new versions of its Data Protector suite tools -- FieldShield, CellShield, and RowGen -- and new features in its data management platform -- Voracity -- that improve enterprise data security and quality for SMBs and cost-conscious enterprise CISOs. (more...)

Melbourne, Fla. (February 25, 2016) – Innovative Routines International (IRI, The CoSort Company) and The Bloor Group are collaborating on “The Philosophy of Data”, a new podcast-oriented ebook highlighting developments driving today’s big data trends, and exploring strategies to better leverage and safeguard data in the 21st century. The project features in-depth dialogues with data management industry analysts and IRI Voracity platform developers. (more...)

“Voracity” Discovers, Integrates, Migrates, Governs, and Analyzes Big Data

Melbourne, Fla. (December 1, 2015) – Innovative Routines International (IRI), The CoSort Company, has unveiled an affordable data management platform called Voracity to streamline information architectures and help enterprises leverage the intrinsic value of data without the cost or complexity of multiple tools. (more...)

2015 List Includes IRI for Consolidating Key Data Management Activities

Melbourne, Fla. (November 10, 2015) - Innovative Routines International (IRI), Inc., The CoSort Company, a leading data management and protection ISV, was named a top “Big Data Solution Provider" for 2015 by CIO Review. A panel of CEOs, CIOs, VCs, industry analysts,  and CIO Review editors selected the top 100 vendors “based on merit.” (more...)

New Software Discovers Patterns, Bulk-Protects, and Audits PII in Spreadsheets

Melbourne, Fla. (August 11, 2015) – Innovative Routines International (IRI), Inc., The CoSort Company, has released an enterprise-class, data-centric protection solution for corporations storing personally identifiable information (PII) in Excel 2010 and 2013 spreadsheets. IRI CellShield Enterprise Edition (EE) is the only full-featured, professional compliance package for Excel workbooks that can locate and automatically protect sensitive data across a network. (more...)

Powerful Discovery Wizards for DBAs, DW/BI Architects and Data Governance Teams

Melbourne, Fla. (July 28, 2015) – Innovative Routines International (IRI), The CoSort Company, announced the launch of several free cross-platform data and database discovery tools in the IRI Workbench, its graphical IDE for data manipulation and management activities built on Eclipse™. (more...)

Discussion of Hadoop and Alternatives for Faster Preparation of Big Data Now On-Line

Melbourne, Fla. (July 16, 2015) - Innovative Routines International IRI, Inc. (The CoSort Company), a leading provider of data management and manipulation software since 1978, recently participated in a webinar presentation and roundtable discussion organized by Database Trends & Applications (DBTA) and co-sponsored by Attunity entitled "Accelerating Data Processing for Analytics." The webinar focused on technologies that speed the processing and protection of data ahead of analytics amid the growing challenges of data volume, variety, velocity, veracity, and value. (more...)

Leading Data Manipulation ISV Teams with Proven Hadoopers on "Voracity"

Melbourne, Fla. (March 12, 2015) - Innovative Routines International (IRI), Inc. (The CoSort® Company), and PT. Dua Empat Tujuh (Solusi247) of Jakarta, have formed a joint technology venture to augment IRI's emerging Voracity™ data integration and management platform with optional Hadoop engine deployments. In addition to CoSort v10's SMP engine, big data transformation and protection workloads will run in parallel across multiple commodity servers using MapReduce, Spark, Storm, or Tez engines. (more...)

Eclipse IDE Selected for Familiar Job Design and Data Management Facilities

Melbourne, Fla. (January 6, 2015) – Database Trends and Applications (DBTA) magazine has included the IRI Workbench -- the free, graphical integrated development environment (IDE) for all data management and protection software available from IRI, The CoSort Company -- in its latest annual list of trend-setting products in data and information management. (more...)

IRI Leverages Latest RHEL Features in CoSort-Compatible Data Management Software Line

Melbourne, Fla. (December 16, 2014) – Innovative Routines International (IRI), Inc., The CoSort® Company, has successfully ported its flagship data manipulation package, IRI CoSort, to Red Hat Enterprise Linux version 7 (“RHEL 7”). CoSort on RHEL 7 enables big data users to package, protect, and present information faster and more affordably than ever before, using a familiar operating system on commodity hardware. CoSort’s validation also means that its purpose-built spin-offs for data and database migration (IRI NextForm), data masking (IRI FieldShield), and test data generation (IRI RowGen), also run under RHEL 7. (more...)

Select-and-Click Masking, Encryption, and Pseudonymization

Melbourne, Fla. (November 13, 2014) – Innovative Routines International (IRI), Inc., The CoSort® Company and developer of FieldShield® data masking software for the enterprise, has released a low-cost security add-in for Microsoft Excel® 2010 and 2013. IRI CellShield™ allows users to directly mask, encrypt, and pseudonymize the sensitive data they select. (more...)

84 More Data Sources Now Available to IRI Workbench Users

Melbourne, Fla. (September 11, 2014) – Innovative Routines International (IRI), Inc., best known as The CoSort Company, has announced that its data management and protection software can reach and manage data from many more data sources. Through a new partnership with CONNX Solutions, Inc., users of the IRI Workbench GUI can now acquire and work with data in more than 125 different file and database formats. (more...)

Data Management ISV Finds and Integrates Enterprise Dark Data from an Eclipse GUI

Melbourne, Fla. (August 28, 2014) – Innovative Routines International (IRI), Inc., best known as “The CoSort Company” and for fast data manipulation and data-centric protection software, has announced a new graphical tool to quickly and inexpensively capture information in unstructured data sources, or what Gartner calls “dark data.” (more...)

Enables Data Migration, Masking, and Test Data Generation in Eclipse

Melbourne, Fla. (July 16, 2014) – Innovative Routines International (IRI), Inc., The CoSort Company, a leading provider of fast data management and data-centric protection software,  has developed integration protocols for Teradata®. IRI users can now directly access data in Teradata sources, work with it, and create metadata and data feeds for Teradata targets. (more...)

Combined Offerings Modernize COBOL Applications and Data Utilization

Melbourne, Fla. (March 11, 2014) – Innovative Routines International (IRI), Inc., better known as The CoSort Company, and Language Portability Solutions, Inc. (LPS), have announced a re-marketing agreement to help mainframe users convert their COBOL applications, data, and JCL for use in Microsoft .NET, SQL Server, and Windows batch job frameworks. (more...)

NextForm® v3 Available in Free, MF COBOL, Database, and Unstructured Data Versions

Melbourne, Fla. (February 27, 2014) – Innovative Routines International (IRI), Inc., The CoSort Company -- a 36-year-old ISV specializing in big data management and protection -- has announced the third generation of its data and database migration product, NextForm. (more...)

Melbourne, Fla. (January 21, 2014) – Innovative Routines International (IRI), Inc. (The CoSort Company) -- a leading developer of big data management and data-centric protection software -- has announced the expansion of its professional services division to provide more consulting, implementation, and customized solutions for a wide range of ongoing IT challenges. (more...)

Dependent DW and Reorg Operations Can Run without ETL Suites

Melbourne, Fla. (December 18, 2013) – Innovative Routines International (IRI), Inc., a leading developer of fast data management and data-centric protection software, has automated inter-dependent extraction (E), transformation (T), and loading (L) operations using Oracle's job scheduling engine, DBMS_SCHEDULER. An IRI white paper details and demonstrates the tie-in. (more...)

Melbourne, Fla. (September 27, 2013) – Innovative Routines International (IRI), Inc., a long-time leader in big data management and data protection software, has certified its flagship CoSort package “Ready for PureSystem” on PureFlex – IBM’s family of expert integrated systems. PureFlex compatibility allows IRI customers to develop and deploy CoSort SortCL programs in a cloud environment for data transformation, protection, conversion and reporting. (more...)

Melbourne, Fla. (June 27, 2013) – Innovative Routines International (IRI), Inc., a long-time leader in big data transformation and data-centric protection technology, is confirming a significant performance improvement method for users of MicroStrategy’s Business Intelligence platform. When IRI’s CoSort® is used to stage the source data first, MicroStrategy generates report outputs in half the time. (more...)

Melbourne, Fla. (May 8, 2013) – Innovative Routines International (IRI), Inc., a long-time leader in big data transformation and data-centric protection technology, is confirming a significant performance improvement method for users of IBM's Cognos® Business Intelligence (BI) software. When IRI's CoSort® is used to stage the source data first, Cognos can generate report outputs in half the time. (more...)

Melbourne, Fla. (April 25, 2013) – Innovative Routines International (IRI), Inc., a leading developer of big data transformation and data-centric protection software, is announcing the results from a recent independent study showing a significant performance improvement using CoSort® to transform large input data for the Informatica PowerCenter® ETL environment. (more...)

CoSort® will Integrate with BIRT and Offer Advanced BI in The IRI Workbench, Built on Eclipse™

Melbourne, Fla. (February 21, 2013) – Innovative Routines International (IRI), Inc., The CoSort Company™ – a leading developer of big data transformation and data-centric protection software, and Actuate Corporation, The BIRT Company™ – delivering more insights to more people than all BI companies combined – have announced an alliance to offer seamless, end-to-end big data preparation and presentation in Eclipse. (more...)

FieldShield Adds Protection Rules, RowGen Automates Test Data Population

Melbourne, Fla. (February 5, 2013) – Innovative Routines International (IRI), Inc., a leading developer of big data transformation and data-centric protection software, announced major new versions of its products for securing personally-identifying information in databases and files, and rapidly generating safe, intelligent test data for entire databases, files and reports. The respective FieldShield® and RowGen™ v3 upgrades include major functional enhancements, and full support in the IRI Workbench graphical IDE, Built on Eclipse™. (more...)

RowGen v3 Uses Table Info to Build Test Databases in Eclipse GUI

Melbourne, Fla. (December 21, 2012) – Innovative Routines International (IRI), Inc., a leading developer of big data transformation and data-centric protection software, is upgrading its RowGen package to automatically populate intelligent, referentially correct databases with safe, intelligent test data. (more...)

New Release Applies Common Privacy Rules, Adds FIPS-Compliant Encryption

Melbourne, Fla. (July 13, 2012) – Innovative Routines International (IRI), Inc., a leading developer of big data transformation and data-centric protection software, is upgrading FieldShield for DBAs to apply a uniform protection to columns containing the same personally identifying information (PII) attribute across multiple tables in a database or schema. (more...)

Service Reach Building in Eurasia and Beyond

Melbourne, Fla. (May 14, 2012) – Innovative Routines International (IRI), Inc., a leading developer of big data transformation and data-centric protection software, is aggressively expanding its local product licensing, support, and professional services capabilities in emerging markets. (more...)

Unload-Sort-Reload Wizard for Eclipse Automates RDB Reorgs

Melbourne, Fla. (February 10, 2012) – Innovative Routines International (IRI), Inc., a leading developer of big data transformation and data-centric protection software, has developed a standalone module in Eclipse that performs bulk, offline reorganizations of relational database tables. (more...)

Very Large Database (VLDB) Unload Tool Gets Powerful GUI Front-End

Melbourne, Fla. (November 4, 2011) – Innovative Routines International (IRI), Inc., a leading developer of big data transformation and data-centric protection software, has released its Fast Extract (FACT) utility in the IRI Workbench, an Eclipse plug-in that already supports CoSort for big data transformation, and FieldShield for data masking functions in PII and PHI environments. (more...)

FieldShield v2 Features New Job Wizard and Field Protection Dialogs

Melbourne, Fla. (August 24, 2011) – Innovative Routines International (IRI), Inc., a leading developer of big data transformation and data-centric protection software, is leveraging the powerful graphical development environment of Eclipse in its next release of FieldShield for masking data in flat files and database tables. (more...)

IBM Confirms IRI Software for Use on i, p, x, and z Series Hardware Platforms

Melbourne, Fla. (May 12, 2011) – Innovative Routines International (IRI), Inc., a leading developer of data transformation software, has achieved Chiphopper certification from IBM for the latest release of its flagship software package, CoSort v9.5.1. (more...)

IDE Facilitates Job Design, Metadata Management, and Remote Execution

Melbourne, Fla. (January 10, 2011) – Innovative Routines International (IRI), Inc., a leading developer of big data transformation and data-centric protection software, will bundle an Eclipse graphical user interface (GUI) with its product line. (more...)

ODBC Support Allows Transforms, Migrations, Protections, and Reports on Tables

Melbourne, Fla. (October 15, 2010) – Innovative Routines International (IRI), Inc., a leader in big data manipulation software since 1978, is enabling its flagship CoSort package to directly handle data in relational database management systems (RDBMS) through open database connectivity (ODBC) drivers. (more...)

Update to Data Security Tool Also Features Format-Preserving Encryption

Melbourne, Fla. (July 7, 2010) – Innovative Routines International (IRI), Inc., a leading developer of data transformation software, is now shipping version 1.5 of FieldShield®, the world's first cross-platform field-level encryption and masking software for flat files. (more...)

New Tools to Process Data in Different Byte Orders Across Platforms

Melbourne, Fla. (April 27, 2010) – Innovative Routines International Inc. (IRI), Inc., announced that it has solved a problem inherent with migrating data across different endian architectures (e.g. a binary file created on a mainframe but read on a PC). (more...)

IRI Delivers Targeted Data Encryption, Masking

Melbourne, Fla. (April 6, 2010) – Innovative Routines International Inc. (IRI), Inc., has released the world's first cross-platform, data-centric protection utility for files. FieldShield protects personally identifying information (PII) in flat files down to the field level, according to business rules.  (more...)

NextForm v2 GUI Controls Multiple File, Field Conversions

Melbourne, Fla. (March 9, 2010) – Innovative Routines International Inc. (IRI), Inc., a leading developer of data manipulation software, is now shipping release 2 of NextForm, for large file and data type conversions. (more...)

Strategic Alliance Speeds Processing, Migration, and Protection of COBOL Data

Melbourne, Fla. (November 16, 2009) – Innovative Routines International (IRI), Inc., a leading developer of big data transformation and data-centric protection software, is marking the tenth year of a technology and business partnership with Micro Focus, a leading provider of COBOL compilers and development software based in the United Kingdom. (more...)

FieldShield Will Protect Sensitive Data on Unix and Windows

Melbourne, Fla. (May 13, 2009) – Innovative Routines International (IRI), Inc., a leading developer of big data manipulation software, announced it will deliver the field-level protection functions now available in its flagship CoSort package in a specialized utility for the information security industry called FieldShield. (more...)

Big Data Processing & Security Tools Will Run in New Adaptive Infrastructure

Melbourne, Fla. (April 20, 2009) – Innovative Routines International (IRI), Inc., a leading developer of high-performance, high-volume data transformation software since 1978, today announced that its flagship CoSort package and related tools will run within the HP BladeSystem Matrix. (more...)

Big Data Tools Expand Reach in Benelux and Latin America

Melbourne, Fla. (January 19, 2009) – Innovative Routines International (IRI), Inc., a leading developer of big data transformation and data-centric protection software, is announcing new partner office appointments for product licensing, support, and professional services capabilities in both developed and emerging markets. (more...)

IRI Joins HP Infrastructure Partner Program

Melbourne, Fla. (December 5, 2008) – Innovative Routines International (IRI), Inc., a leading developer of big data transformation and data-centric protection software, has allied with Hewlett-Packard (HP) to raise the visibility of CoSort on HP servers worldwide. IRI's flagship CoSort package manipulates large amounts of data on HP-UX systems across multiple industry segments, but its visibility within HP corporate has heretofore been focused mostly on mainframe-to-Unix migrations. (more...)

BeyeNETWORK Interview Spotlights Innovations in Big Data Manipulation

Denver, Co. (July 8, 2008) – Innovative Routines International (IRI), Inc., an independent software vendor (ISV) based in Melbourne, FL, has just recorded its 30th year in the software industry - and in the business of high-volume sorting and data manipulation in particular. (more...)

CoSort Helps Move Legacy Systems to More Agile Platforms

Melbourne, Fla. (May 28, 2008) – Innovative Routines International Inc. (IRI), The CoSort Company (www.iri.com), has joined the Mainframe Migration Alliance (MMA), a group of companies working to help enterprises migrate mainframe processing to the Microsoft® Platform. (more...)

RowGen Version 2 Simulates and Protects Real Data

Melbourne, Fla. (April 22, 2008) – Innovative Routines International Inc. (IRI), developer of the CoSort data manipulation suite for open systems, is now shipping RowGen Version 2: test data software for application development, load testing and outsourcing. RowGen eliminates the need for testing with real data, and overcomes traditional limits of low load volumes and inaccurate data. (more...)

Bulk Unload Tool for Data Warehousing Runs on Win2K/3, XP, and Vista

Melbourne, Fla. (September 25, 2007) – Innovative Routines International Inc. (IRI), makers of the high-performance CoSort (www.cosort.com) data manipulation package, announced that Fast Extract (FACT) for Oracle now runs on Windows. FACT users on Unix include: Accenture, American Airlines, Bisys, Comcast, CSC, Excelcom, Highmark, Reliance Retail, and Sungard. (more...)

CoSort Processes Chinese, Japanese, Korean and Unicode Data

Melbourne, Fla. (September 4, 2007) – Innovative Routines International (IRI), Inc. announced that its flagship data manipulation software, CoSort V9, (www.cosort.com) now processes large flat files containing multi-byte characters. CoSort allows companies to rapidly permute and convert Chinese, Japanese, and Korean (CJK) data in their native forms. (more...)

New CoSort Features Relieve DBMS Overhead, Assure Accuracy

Melbourne, Fla. (August 15, 2007) – Innovative Routines International Inc. (IRI), makers of the CoSort (www.cosort.com) data processing software for Unix, Linux and Windows, today announced two more IT productivity breakthroughs in Version 9 - Multi-File Joins and Multi-Dimensional Lookups. These new functions integrate disparate data, and create newly actionable information. (more...)

IRI Adds Graphical Business Data to Big Data Preparation

Melbourne, Fla. (July 9, 2007) – Innovative Routines International Inc. (IRI), makers of the CoSort (www.cosort.com) package for high-volume data processing on Unix, Linux and Windows, today announced the availability of an optional dashboard application for displaying business information in convenient visual formats. (more...)

Version 9 Manages File Formats and Sizes Others Can't

Melbourne, Fla. (June 5, 2007) – Innovative Routines International Inc. (IRI), makers of CoSort (www.cosort.com) data manipulation software for Unix, Linux and Windows, says its new version solves a big industry problem – manipulating and migrating massive XML and LDIF (LDAP Interchange Format) files to and from other file formats. Prior to CoSort 9, there has been no efficient way to convert, process, protect, or create large files in either format. The new CoSort version can – helping companies use this data in many more ways. (more...)

Easy-to-Use, File Security Functions Include Field-Level Encryption

Melbourne, Fla. (May 14, 2007) – Innovative Routines International Inc. (IRI), makers of the CoSort (www.cosort.com) data manipulation package for Unix, Linux and Windows, announced that the latest CoSort release (V9) can also encrypt and protect files with private personal information down to the field level. Other tools protect sensitive data by encrypting entire files, databases, disks, or laptops – which is often slower, and renders everything else inaccessible. Instead, CoSort can apply different protections to each field as needed: anonymization, encryption, de-identification, filtering, obfuscation, or pseudonymization – rendering data theft futile/profitless. Also unique: CoSort users can employ (and audit) these protections as they manipulate and report from many large files. (more...)

Now Data Accuracy Can Be Checked Simultaneously with Data Transformation, Encryption and Reporting

Rancho Santa Margarita, Calif. (May 1, 2007) – Melissa Data (www.melissadata.com), a provider of data quality software and services, today announced that its Data Quality Tools, including Address Object, can run directly with CoSort (www.cosort.com), the flagship data manipulation and management software from Innovative Routines International Inc. (IRI). (more...)

New SortCL "Data Definition File" Export Bridge in Meta Integration Suite

Denver, Co. (April 24, 2006) – Innovative Routines International (IRI), Inc., a leader in open systems sorting and ETL acceleration software, and Meta Integration Technology, Inc. (MITI), a leader in business metadata conversion, today announced their partnership at the 10th Annual Wilshire Metadata Conference. (more...)

CoSort Integrated into metaController for Scheduled Data Warehouse Operations

Melbourne, Fla. (April 3, 2006) – Innovative Routines International (IRI), Inc. ("The CoSort® Company"), a pioneer in high-volume sorting and data warehouse acceleration software for open systems, and Full 360 LLC (New York, NY), a premier solutions and technology provider specializing in scalable, repeatable infrastructures for corporate performance management (CPM) and business intelligence (BI) services, announced the formation of a technical and marketing alliance. The partnership is designed to help each company strengthen their offerings in the extract-transform-load (ETL) market through product integration, concept sharing, and customer referral. (more...)

Data Warehouse ISV and Consulting Co. to Optimize Client ETL and BI Operations

Melbourne, Fla. (January 24, 2006) – Innovative Routines International (IRI), Inc. (Melbourne, FL), a leading provider of high-volume data sorting and extract-transform-load (ETL) acceleration software for open systems, and Avenues International, Ltd. (Princeton Junction, NJ), a rapidly-growing professional services firm specializing in business intelligence, data warehousing and interactive marketing solutions, today announced the formation of a strategic consulting alliance. The partnership will wrap Avenue's expert consulting services around IRI's advanced data manipulation, presentation, and synthesis software: FAst extraCT™ (FACT), CoSort®, and RowGen™. (more...)

Sort/Report/ETL Software Runs on SUSE LINUX Enterprise Server 9 on both IBM eServer i5 and eServer p5 Systems

Melbourne, Fla. (August 5, 2004) – Innovative Routines International (IRI), Inc. (The CoSort Company) today announced the availability of its flagship data sorting and manipulation package, CoSort™, for IBM mainframe-to-UNIX migrations, DBAs, data warehouse (ETL) architects, report writers, and application developers, can now exploit CoSort's parallel sorting engines and data transformation capabilities on the latest generation of IBM's Power Architecture. (more...)

Direct Sorting and Transformation of ACUCOBOL-GT Vision Index File Format

Melbourne, Fla. (December 4, 2003) – CoSort / Innovative Routines International (IRI), Inc. now supports Acucorp Inc.'s Vision file system, part of the ACUCOBOL-GT® development suite, on Windows® and Solaris™ platforms - with other UNIX flavors to follow shortly. This support enables ACUCOBOL-GT users to sort Vision files, convert a Vision file to another output file format, create a Vision file from input in another format, and combine these and other data manipulation operations in the same I/O pass -- all using CoSort's Sort Control Language (SortCL) or SortCL_routine (API). (more...)

SMP Sort Software Migrates Legacy Sort Calls to Open Systems

Melbourne, Fla. (April 7, 2003) – Innovative Routines International (IRI), Inc. (The CoSort Company) today announced the availability of its flagship Sort/ETL package, CoSort V8, for IBM eServer zSeries running Linux. The announcement comes two years after CoSort Linux, Version 7.5.3, was ported to IBM eServer iSeries platforms, and seven years after CoSort was first ported to Linux on Intel. (more...)

Record-Breaking Unix Sort Speeds. SortCL (ETL) API Introduced. Java GUI Upgraded.

Melbourne, Fla. (February 20, 2003) – Innovative Routines International (IRI), Inc. (a/k/a CoSort) announced the release of CoSort Version 8 ("V8"), and with it the IT industry's first major sort speed improvement in two years. V8 features a redesigned parallel sort engine for UNIX servers, a new API for data warehouse developers, and enhanced migration tools for mainframe and other sort users switching to CoSort on open systems. V8 is a chargeable upgrade for existing CoSort users, but does not increase CoSort's perpetual-use price points. V8 for Windows will ship in late March. (more...)

2.4Gb / minute Pre-sorting Speeds Decision Support Queries

Melbourne, Fla. (June 15, 2000) – Innovative Routines International, Inc. (better known as The CoSort Company) today announced that International Business Machines Corporation (IBM) selected Version 7.1.2 of IRI's UNIX® CoSort™ package to speed the preparation of data on the way to a record-setting business intelligence performance benchmark in May. (more...)