Many mainframe shops have had SAS around for years. Often, the current programmers have all but forgotten what unique features SAS was originally licensed for. SAS was designed to be a complete, all encompassing statistical analysis package. As such it comes with a hefty annual price tag. But at many shops, SAS is now mainly used an expensive, CPU-intensive, report writer. Why should you keep on paying so much money for bells and whistles that no one is even using anymore?

If your shop is using SAS primarily as an ad hoc report writer
we have great news for you!
Z-Writer can provide you with the same
4GL reporting abilities at a much lower cost!

Z-Writer is a powerful quick-code utility for z/OS mainframes. It is perfect for those quick-and-dirty one-time queries and analyses. But it is also ideal for quickly creating attractive new reports for production use. Use it to add custom reporting capabilities to any of your existing systems, whether home-grown or from a third party. Use it to report on the VSAM files maintained by your CICS applications. Or on DB2 data. The possibilites are endless for accomplishing more and more — while paying less and less, year after year.

Z-Writer's annual costs are much less than SAS's. (We publish our low prices right here. Compare that to what you are currently paying for SAS!) Yet Z-Writer provides the same sort of report writing and file manipulation capabilities, including dozens of powerful string and math functions.

Z-Writer features a simple syntax that is easy to learn and use. Your programmers will be up and running with Z-Writer in no time. And Z-Writer accepts your existing COBOL or Assembler record layouts so you can get started using it right away. It is also written entirely in fast, efficient Assembler language to be easy on your CPU.

Best of all, it comes from Pacific Systems Group, with its 25-year history of providing inexpensive, rock solid mainframe software, backed up with first class service and support. Following is an actual SAS program that has been converted to Z-Writer.

FILENAME RAWIN 'WTAP01A.MYRAW.DATA' MVS LRECL=80;

DATA SASDATA INFILE RAWIN;

        INPUT    IDNUM 1-4
                 AGE   7-9
                 STATE $ 17-18
                 SEX   55-55;

        IF   SEX = 1
        IF   AGE < 18 THEN AGEGRP=1;
                ELSE IF AGE <= 65 THEN AGEGRP=2;
                ELSE IF AGE >  65 THEN AGRGRP=3;

PROC PRINT DATA=SASDATA;

TITLE 'AGE GROUP OF MALES';

RUN;

FILE    RAWIN LRECL(80)
IDNUM 4
AGE   N2 COL(7)
STATE 2  COL(17)
SEX   1  COL(55)
WORKAREA
AGEGRP  N4
*
READ RAWIN
DOWHILE #STATUS = 'Y'
   IF SEX = 1
      IF AGE < 18 AGEGRP=1 
        ELSEIF AGE <= 65 AGEGRP=2
        ELSEIF AGE >  65 AGEGRP=3 ENDIF
      PRINT IDNUM AGE STATE SEX AGRGRP
   ENDIF
   READ RAWIN
ENDDO
TITLE 'AGE GROUP OF MALES'

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