PROC SORT Alternative – PROC SYNCSORT

PROC SYNCSORT is a high-performance replacement for the SAS-provided procedure PROC SORT. Compared to PROC SORT, PROC SYNCSORT significantly reduces the resources required for sorting within SAS applications. PROC SYNCSORT:

• Reduces elapsed time for running your SAS applications
• Improves your system throughput and response time
• Installs without changing your existing programs that use PROC SORT

Benchmark tests show dramatic performance advantages when PROC SYNCSORT is used instead of PROC SORT:

• 45% reduction in task CPU time
• 79% in I/Os
• 25% in elapsed time

PROC SYNCSORT achieves such incredible gains by providing a direct interface between SAS programs and SyncSort MVS or SyncSort for z/OS. This frees SyncSort to use the high-performance techniques – sophisticated access methods, path length minimization, I/O optimization – that have made SyncSort the most frequently used sort product.