On Tue, 23 Dec 2008 14:55:25 -0600, John McKown wrote: > >Oh, and again, this assumes no compression product, such as SMS compression >or BMC's Data Accelerator, has compressed the data in the dataset. > Truly transparent compression products manifest the raw size to the programmer. (Although the compressed size is also useful -- it's another representation of "unformatted space".) NOTE and POINT, etc. should likewise work transparently on a compressed data set.
I neglected to add my riposte to Ron H. earlier: The "Rube Goldberg" here is more properly attributable to IBM designers than to the contributors to this list. We're just getting in the spirit of the game. Feels like two whole weeks of Fridays. -- gil ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
