I'll need to "hit the books" to see how to do that. -- John McKown Systems Engineer IV IT
Administrative Services Group HealthMarkets(r) 9151 Boulevard 26 * N. Richland Hills * TX 76010 (817) 255-3225 phone * [email protected] * www.HealthMarkets.com Confidentiality Notice: This e-mail message may contain confidential or proprietary information. If you are not the intended recipient, please contact the sender by reply e-mail and destroy all copies of the original message. HealthMarkets(r) is the brand name for products underwritten and issued by the insurance subsidiaries of HealthMarkets, Inc. -The Chesapeake Life Insurance Company(r), Mid-West National Life Insurance Company of TennesseeSM and The MEGA Life and Health Insurance Company.SM > -----Original Message----- > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List > [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Scott Chapman > Sent: Tuesday, August 02, 2011 6:32 AM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: where 2 find SMS compression code > > I realize you said you aren't testing for compression ratio > or CPU usage, but you might still want to take a quick look > at those with both tailored and generic/standard compression. > I just recently found that switching my SMF data to > tailored compression saved about 40% of the space, but at the > cost of about a 25% increase in CPU time. Everybody probably > has different views about that trade-off, but those > percentages are big enough to make it worth looking at > regardless of which resource is more precious to you at the moment. > > Your mileage may vary. Past performance is not indicative of > future gains. > > Scott Chapman > > >Thanks. these are small datasets. I don't know why they were > compressed > >with Data Accelerator. We greatly overused that product. > Management at > >the time said: "Great! Compress everything and we don't need > to get any > >more DASD!" Management today says: "Use SMS compression and eliminate > >the cost of Data Accelerator!" We did not testing to see how > this will > >affect CPU usage or compression ratio. Just say "save > money!" and eyes > >glisten like a child in a candy shop. > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > send email to [email protected] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO > Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
