MIPS reduction using ORD-MIN function in COBOL

The splitting of data using DFSORT utility contributes hugely to MIPS which is an acronym for "Million Instructions Per Second". The MIPS has evolved to determine the processing power and CPU resource consumption. This study investigates and provides an optimized way of performing a balanced splitting of data and makes an effort to reduce the CPU consumption by decreasing the number of instructions needed to perform the same task. The three methods that are used for the same are the SUM FIELDS method, the EASYTRIEVE method and the ORD-MIN functions method. The three data split methods mentioned above have been compared for a large amount of input data and it has been shown that the ORD-MIN function aids MIPS reduction.