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I think you can only specify *YES for save files which equates to *MED. For Virtual Optical you get *LOW *MED and *HIGH. Remember too that you can SAVACCPTH(*NO) as well which can save a bit on the space but at a penalty on restore.

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On 4/23/2015 3:07 PM, Scott Klement wrote:
Yes, save files will always be bigger than the original PF unless you
use compression.

Try using DTACPR(*HIGH) (or *YES on older releases) when running the
SAVxxx command to create your save file. This enables compression that
can significantly reduce the size of the save file.


On 4/23/2015 2:00 PM, John McKee wrote:
This may be old stuff. Just noticed today. I had to transfer a large PF
from remote 520 to local. Learned, in the past, that FTP does not retain
file definition, so created a save file and transferred it. Paranoia
about
file content led to extracting the single file and spot checking.

Never had the opportunity to do this before. I thought a save file might
be a little smaller than original physical file. Maybe somewhere, but
not
in this case.

Save file size is 18586152960
Physical file size is 12014727168

I expected the save file to be a little larger, to acomodate field
information. I wasn't aware the difference could be this much. I did
not
specify compression on the v5r3 system.

Does the size difference seem unusual, or is that the norm?

John McKee


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