Sort Evaluator

Carreker's Sort Evaluator™ is a PC-based product that provides a comprehensive tool for testing and debugging 389x/XP sort programs written in both SCI and NATIVE languages. By re-creating the 389x/XP environment in a PC workstation, testing and debugging can be accomplished without the use of a Reader/Sorter.

The Sort Evaluator program runs at a PC workstation and acts in the same way as a document processor. The product gives a sort programmer who develops programs for the 3890/XP Series document processors a set of tracing, debugging, and timing functions for the testing of sort programs. It re-creates the operating environment of the 3890/XP and can process sort programs at any of the following sort program execution (SPX) events:

• Initialization
• Document
• Motors stopped
• Operator

Sort Evaluator can run in either a stand-alone workstation, simulating a host attachment, or a host-attached workstation, communicating to an application program at the host computer. In the stand-alone workstation, Sort Evaluator can simulate either on-line or off-line operation. In the host-attached workstation, it accepts initialization data and codeline data match data from a host application program and sends read records to the host program.

DESCRIPTION

Sort Evaluator runs sort programs that are written for the 3890/XP. Its functions are similar to but more expansive and flexible than the functions in the Test Aid tool of the 3890/XP MVS Support or 3890/XP VSE Support licensed programs.

Sort Evaluator has the functions of the 3890/XP's sorter control program with these important differences:

• It does not require an attached document transport module. The program gets records from input files and writes pocket codes to an output file.
• It need not be attached to a host computer to simulate on-line operation. It reads codeline data match records from an input file and can write host computer data to an output file.
• It can trace the running of sort programs.

These differences enable you to use Sort Evaluator to:

• Debug and test complete sort program operation without monopolizing a sorter.
• Determine whether sort programs that were written for 3890 sorters are compatible with the 3890/XP.
• Determine whether various sorter control are correct and correctly distributed on the disk subsystem for a sorting run.
• Evaluate the performance of a sort program to ensure that it meets all timing constraints.

For tracing and debugging sort programs, Sort Evaluator:

• Runs sort programs
• Runs traces of sort programs
• Supports the link to a host computer
  • Times sort programs
  • Provides a user interface
  • Provides the test aid conversion utility
  • Provides a help message facility

FEATURES

• Supports SCI and OS/2 supported languages
  • "C"
  • COBOL
  • Macro Assembler
  • Tests programs written for Document and Non- Document events
• Provides trace and storage dump capabilities
• Eliminates dependency on hardware for testing and debugging
• Includes a 3890 test-aid migration tool
• Provides functions for:
  • Processing valid and invalid document data
  • Simulating hardware auto-select conditions
  • Execution timing (estimated or measured)

For more information about this solution, contact Doug Halvorsen at 704.602.5335 or complete our Information Request Form.