RE: Zip Compression

["Haase, Justin C." <justin.haase@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Agreed on the *MEDIUM. 


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Justin C. Haase - Solution Engineer
IBM Certified Systems Expert - System i
Kingland Systems Corporation

-----Original Message-----
From: midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Wayne McAlpine
Sent: Thursday, December 21, 2006 3:19 PM
To: midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: Zip Compression

DTACPR(*MEDIUM) strikes a good balance between speed and compression.  I
ran some benchmarks on it some time ago and the compression is almost as
good as running DTACPR(*HIGH), but it executes much faster.

rob@xxxxxxxxx wrote:
> I've found that using the *HIGH compression available with the DTACPR 
> parameter with V5R4 is quite impressive.  The amount of space saved by

> ftping that to a PC and then running winzip on that was negligible.  
> Not like DTACPR(*yes), that didn't get near the compression.
>
> But methinks you are right with PKZIP.  See also tar in qshell.
>
> Rob Berendt
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