On Thu, Dec 15, 2016 at 11:16 AM, Alan Young <[email protected]> wrote:
> Is the data going to be stored in a standalone file? If so and the storage > filesystem is NTFS, have them turn on NTFS file and folder compression for > that folder or just the datasets. It is built in to Windows and will > transparently compress the whole dataset and not just blank space fields. > If it is linux/unix, there are few filesystems that support file > compression as well. > I'm not very Windows literate anymore. I'll mention the NTFS option for automatic compression. I guess that's Windows' equivalent of SMS compression. I do know that some of our files are not on a SAN, but on a NetApp box. These may be kept on NetApp. About which I know nothing. Because, when I ask, "you have no need to know that." The Windows / SAN people really don't want to be bothered telling us mainframers what is going on / available. > > Is the data going to be stored in a database - mariadb/mysql, DB2, etc. ? > Many database products have data compression that can be used and is > transparent to application and will be a better choice. > I think it's just a "line sequential" (text) file. If it goes to a data base, it will be MS SQL Server, the beloved. -- Heisenberg may have been here. http://xkcd.com/1770/ Maranatha! <>< John McKown ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
