John, But why? IDRC has been around for what, 20-years now. Why hasn't IDRC been moved to a chip on the main board, like the CPACF is on the main board. Since IDRC has proven to be such a good compression algorithm, why not move it to the mainframe and allow all applications to enjoy it. And you know that it must be down to a chip, or it probably wouldn't be on every tape drive as it is now.
Russell Witt CA-1 Level-2 Support Manager -----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of John Eells Sent: Saturday, September 02, 2006 7:19 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: IBM announces Encrypting tape drives ...<snip>... Having said that, the compression algorithm used by the tape controllers is somewhat better than the one used on the servers. -- John Eells z/OS Technical Marketing IBM Poughkeepsie [EMAIL PROTECTED] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
