Richard: I used some of the algorithms in 'The Data Compression Book' by Mark Nelson and Jean-Loup Gailly with great success. The code is mostly in C but I ported it to zArch Assembler with moderate effort. Amazon sells the book as of today.
Mike Shaw MVS/QuickRef Support Group Chicago-Soft, Ltd. On Fri, Jul 11, 2025 at 3:27 PM Richard Zierdt < [email protected]> wrote: > Any recommendations of textbooks, papers, etc about data compression for > the beginner and up in general, and/or Redbooks, SHARE conferences, et.al., > about data compression with a z/OS slant in particular? > > Yes, there are CSRCESRV and CSRCMPSC services and I'll play with them, but > some amount of "under the hood" documentation would help. > > "tailored" compression, "generic" compression, Dictionaries, tokens, Oh My! > > Thanks > Richard Zierdt > > Confidentiality Warning/Avertissement de confidentialité: > > This message is intended only for the named recipients. This message may > contain information that is privileged or confidential. If you are not the > named recipient, its employee or its agent, please notify us immediately > and permanently destroy this message and any copies you may have. Ce > message est destiné uniquement aux destinataires dûment nommés. Il peut > contenir de l'information privilégiée ou confidentielle. Si vous n'êtes pas > le destinataire dûment nommé, son employé ou son mandataire, veuillez nous > aviser sans tarder et supprimer ce message ainsi que toute copie qui peut > en avoir été faite. > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
