Mainframe easytrieve

Easytrieve is a report generator, sold by CA Technologies. Easytrieve Classic and Easytrieve Plus are two available versions of this programming language primarily designed to generate reports and are used by large corporations operating in mainframe (z/OS, z/VM, z/VSE), UNIX, Linux, and Microsoft Windows environments.

Easytrieve is an information retrieval and data management system designed to simplify typical programming tasks. Almost any business-oriented task can be accomplished. It is simple enough for a beginner to use without additional training, and sophisticated enough to enable a data processing expert to perform complex tasks.

Easytrieve is an ENGLISH style language somewhat similar to COBOL.

Processing in an Easytrieve environment is in a ‘straight-line’ code from the beginning to the end of the program logic.

Easytrieve program is designed to make it easy for you to manipulate files and produce reports. It is suitable for beginners in data processing techniques because it is easy to learn.

Benifits of Easytrieve:

File Processing:

• Accepts any number of input files.
• Processes SAM, ISAM, VSAM, or IMS/DLI files.
• Allows fixed, variable, undefined, or spanned record formats.
• Processes data in alphabetic, numeric, packed, packed-unsigned, or binary format.
• Searches files and performs logical data selection based on input or calculation.
• Edits and updates files.
• Matches an unlimited number of files.
• Creates subfiles containing selected records from a master file.

Operations:

• Performs extensive computations through user logic; including percentages, averages, and other calculations.
• Sorts on any number of keys.
• Calls your programs and subroutines written in other languages and integrates them into the job.

Output:

• Outputs any number of files or reports on one pass of the input file(s).
• Automatically formats output with all totals calculated internally.
• Provides summary reports and output files with no limits on the number and size of control break fields or total fields.
• Makes it easy for you to define and print specially formatted output, such as for W-2 forms, audit confirmations, labels, form letters, and preprinted forms.
• Permits you to vary page sizes within a report, and insert additional header and footer information.
• Enables you to write reports directly to microfiche.