On 2016-12-15, at 08:25, John McKown wrote:
> 
> This is being done "just in case" they are needed (i.e. the SAN people
> scream long & hard enough about space issues).
>  
And when that happens, will they go back and retroactively compress
all the data written so far?  And test?  Or use a flag to indicate
the format?

> However, MicroFocus supplies
> 3 different compression routines which can be called from COBOL. What I'm
> trying to convince the programmer to do is write the Wintel COBOL versions
> of the compression routines ...
>  
Be thankful.  They could find an emulator and keep the assembler code.

-- gil

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