Differences Between Normalizer Transformations

There are a number of differences between a VSAM Normalizer transformation using COBOL sources and a pipeline Normalizer transformation.

lists the differences between Normalizer transformations:

Table 10-1. VSAM and Relational Normalizer Transformation Differences
	VSAM Normalizer Transformation	Pipeline Normalizer Transformation
Connection	COBOL source	Any transformation
Port creation	Automatically created based on the COBOL source	Created manually
Ni-or-1 rule	Yes	Yes
Transformations allowed before the Normalizer transformation	No	Yes
Transformations allowed after the Normalizer Transformation	Yes	Yes
Reusable	No	Yes
Ports	Input/Output	Input/Output

Note: Concatenation from the Normalizer transformation occurs only when the row sets being concatenated are of the order one. You cannot concatenate row sets in which the order is greater than one.