On Thu, 2 Dec 2010 16:29:56 +0200, Yifat Oren wrote: > >I was under the impression that for DFDSS DUMP, COMPRESS and HWCOMPRESS are >synonymous; > >Are you saying they are not? > >
Yes, they are not synonymous. HWCOMPRESS uses the CMPSC instruction (dictionary-based compression). COMPRESS uses RLE (run-length encoding). Norbert Friemel ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html