IRI Introduces "RowGen" Custom Data Builder; New, Fast File Synthesizer for Application Prototyping, Format Sharing, and Performance Testing

Multiple Targets: RowGen can create several output file formats - Fixed, Line and Record Sequential, MFVL, CSV, ELF, ACUCOBOL Vision, and others. In addition to special formats, RowGen can simultaneously generate multiple output targets (file, pipes, etc.) in a single job script, with each output ta...

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Published in:Business Wire p. 1
Format: Newsletter
Language:English
Published: New York Business Wire 05.12.2004
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Summary:Multiple Targets: RowGen can create several output file formats - Fixed, Line and Record Sequential, MFVL, CSV, ELF, ACUCOBOL Vision, and others. In addition to special formats, RowGen can simultaneously generate multiple output targets (file, pipes, etc.) in a single job script, with each output target having its own format and customized report layout - including headers and footers, multiple data types, literals, conditional logic, math functions, cross calculation, plus sorted and/or aggregated output. This feature allows users to segment data according to specific conditions, and/or produce multiple-use outputs from the same generated data at the same time. Database Targets: Large, pre-sorted RowGen outputs can also be used to populate relational databases (RDBs) like Oracle, Sybase, DB2 and SQL Server. By importing RowGen'd files through database load utilities, DBAs and ETL architects can build simulated (sorted) tables in simulated query order to test database procedures and performance without requiring, or compromising, actual production data. RowGen includes a metadata converter to automatically build RowGen layouts from the table layout statements contained in Oracle SQL*Loader control files. This saves DBAs' time in writing RowGen jobs. Centralized Metadata: Because RowGen allows multi-phase applications to be developed concurrently, re-usable field (file layout) descriptions can be saved in centralized text files (shared repositories) for reference in several jobs. Metadata updates can then also keep all dependent applications synchronized. RowGen also includes separate metadata conversion utilities for Oracle SQL- Loader Control Files, MF COBOL copybooks, W3C ELF web logs, and Microsoft CSV.