C-SCAN is a powerful data manipulation and data processing utility that includes a proprietary scripting language, which enables fast application development and maintenance. The development of C-SCAN began in 1987 to facilitate a VSE to MVS platform migration. Over the years, it has grown and developed into a multipurpose language. Today, C-SCAN is the main programming language used in all BluePhoenix mainframe modernization products.

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Fact Sheet C-SCAN Engine and Language
Overview
C-SCAN is a powerful data manipulation and data processing utility that includes a proprietary
scripting language, which enables fast application development and maintenance.
The development of C-SCAN began in 1987 to facilitate a VSE to MVS platform migration. Over the
years, it has grown and developed into a multipurpose language. Today, C-SCAN is the main
programming language used in all BluePhoenix mainframe modernization products.
Features
C-SCAN has many sophisticated features, including various “exits” (according to the terminology of
the language), to let you select the members on which you need to work from a given set of libraries
and then perform complicated processing tasks. C-SCAN uses a set of commands that determines the
processing flow of the engine (program SCANPDS and its additional subroutines). C-SCAN accepts a
set of control instructions that is processed sequentially.
C-SCAN is usually used as a batch tool, and can operate on:
• Entire PDS libraries, as well as single members
• Sequential and VSAM datasets; DB2 tables
• Librarian and Panvalet datasets
C-SCAN is able to perform:
• Sophisticated text search; sophisticated text replacement
• Construction of new records based on text found in member’s name or other data
• Addition of records before or after a specific record
• Manipulation of records based on their keys (i.e., DEL, ADD, etc.)
• Report generation using break on keys, headers, trailers, etc.
• Generation of libraries from sequential and VSAM datasets
In addition, C-SCAN has:
• Ability to process multiple input files and output files in a single JCL step
• Enhanced SORT and MERGE capabilities
• Language parsing capacities

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C-SCAN Engine and Language
Utilization
C-SCAN is a powerful tool and language for general application and data remediation. Below are some
of the many tasks that can be performed using C-SCAN:
• Collect and merge information from various data files
• Reformat and restructure data files and PDS members
• Search and replace text in data files and PDS members
• Parse source members for more complex search and replace needs
• Create statistical information from data files and PDS members
• Create detailed reports
• Create test data
• Clone operating environments
Benefits
C-SCAN has two main, unique benefits that help reduce overall IT costs:
1. Fast and easy development and maintenance
Language: The C-SCAN programming language includes a robust set of macro-commands that:
• Enable very sophisticated processes to be written with only a few lines of code
• Save development time, since these macro-commands already contain the most commonly used
algorithms needed for performing remediation tasks
• Save maintenance time, since C-SCAN programs are much shorter and simpler than programs
written in other languages
2. Fast processing time
Engine: Because the C-SCAN engine is written in Assembler and has been optimized for performance,
C-SCAN programs can perform very complex operations on extremely large amounts of data (entire IT
sites!) in a small fraction of the time needed by programs written in other languages.
Case Studies
Below are listed some of the organizations that have used and benefited from C-SCAN’s unique and
powerful capabilities (more information available upon request):
• Aflac
• Machish
• Merrill Lynch
• Mizrachi-Tfachot
• RSI
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