RE: CPYTOIMPF and CSV Format

["Mike Haston ** Data" <MHaston@xxxxxxx>]

It's surprising what zip programs do sometimes.  I rarely see a real noticeable 
compression using WinZip, but I had a year's worth of reports to generate the 
other week and each report when I converted it to .pdf format was 33 meg large 
(they were 4000 page reports .. ugly).  WinZip compressed them down to 3+ meg 
each.

I've never used the iSeries zip programs.  I'd be curious to see how they 
worked.

-----Original Message-----
From: Vern Hamberg [mailto:vhamberg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]
Sent: Friday, August 15, 2003 11:36 AM
To: Midrange Systems Technical Discussion
Subject: RE: CPYTOIMPF and CSV Format


Ken

On the size issue, it might work to compress it in IFS. With all the 
blanks, this ought to compress hugely. <g> jar can do it, right? IBM 
distributes a version of gzip for iSeries, but it has size limits. (It is 
also not the fastest thing on 3 legs.) However, qshell has a split 
function. And cat can be used to reconstitute the file.

Maybe?

Vern

At 07:58 AM 8/15/2003 -0700, you wrote:
<snip>
>This set of files must be processed four time in the next few weeks so
>optimizing the environment is of great importance. The biggest issue, at
>this point, is the size of the resulting data. I haven't been able to get
>an actual byte count yet on the entire set of data, but I am seeing
>significant savings when these padded spaces are removed.
<snip>


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