Additional Features

These features are more advanced. Some of them may be specific to Summer Batch technology

• Support for steps without reader or without the writer

• Support for steps with several writers

• Support for conditionally executed writers

• Support for key-grouping of reading data, to process each group as a whole

• Support for reader and writer use during a process run (useful for multi-read)

• SQL script execution steps

• Email sending steps

• FTP get and put steps

• Common file operations, such as copying or deleting files during a job

• File sort capabilities using legacy DFSORT cards semantics

• Mainframe EBCDIC file readers and writers, using COBOL copybooks

• Advanced report writers, either through flat file templates or through Microsoft® Reporting

• Mainframe GDG-like support