Re: Object Compression

[David Gibbs <david@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

At 04:31 AM 4/29/99 , you wrote:
>Do you have any experience with the CPROBJ command? If yes, please
>share it with us.
>1. How effective is this? What is the average compression rate?

Pretty good ... depending on how bulky your objects are.  I've seen 2:1 
compression of objects with debug & observability info.


>2. Can I save/restore compressed object if my AS/400 are on different
>OS release levels?

Yep

>3. What will happen if the storage usage is above 90%? Will the
>objects decompress without any warning?

Yep, we always run high on dasd utilization and haven't had a problem.

>4. What is the 'dark side' of this command?
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None that I can think of.

david

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