RE: Decompress Object (DCPOBJ)

[thomas@xxxxxxxxxxx]

Jim:

CPROBJ (Compress Object) is possibly not used as much now as it was a number of 
years ago, but there are situations where it's extremely useful.

Depending on the types, numbers and sizes of the objects, a significant amount 
of space can be recovered. When shipping a bunch of objects inside savefiles, 
savefile sizes can be reduced 50% or more at times if objects are compressed 
before saves.

As with most features, "It depends...". Create a test library or two, populate 
with various objects, and run some tests. Possible objects to try are both OPM 
and ILE programs, some SQL, some not, some immediately after compilation, some 
after having been run at least once, etc. YMMV.

Tom Liotta


On Tue, 19 February 2002, "Norbut, Jim" wrote:

> So it's pretty much a useless command nowadays I take it ?
>
>  -----Original Message-----
> From:     barsa@barsaconsulting.com
>
> In the early days of the system, when we were struggling with 9404's with
> under 1 GB of DASD, IBM started to ship OS/400 compressed.  It was a short
> term strategy, but it was what we needed at the time.

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