Version 8 (May 05, 2008)

• New supported Platforms:
  - Distribution of time spent inside the DB2 engine
  - Solaris for x86
• Enhancements to strengthen compatability to IBM's DFSort:

  OPTION-Statement:
  DYNALLOC= to redirect WORK-Files
  SORTIN= and SORTOUT= to redirect Sortin and Sortout files

  OUTREC-Statment:
  BUILD= for precisely reformatting of output file

  OUTFIL-Statment:
  BUILD= for precisely reformatting of output file
  FNAMES=, FILES= and SAVE= to produce an arbitrary amount of output files processing the input file(s) just once

• Some bug fixing
• Performance enhancements

Version 7 (January 30, 2006)

• Support summing negative Zoned Decimal Numbers
• Externalize authorization information in file ahlsortKey.txt
• Ability to override the location of the ahlsort.rc file
• Major performance improvements