On Tue, 2 Aug 2011 06:32:22 -0500, Scott Chapman wrote: >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. >
Tailored compression is not supported for VSAM KSDSes (AFAIK). Norbert Friemel ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
