Re: Tape drive to compress -- MIDRANGE-L

Subject: Re: Tape drive to compress
From: Philipp Rusch <philipp.rusch@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 20 Sep 2004 15:22:42 +0200
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Hi Dwayne,

which type/model of tape drive is this ?

You can define USEOPTBLK *NO on a save command (this is from memory, not at a system in the moment) to get compression working. Does the drive support hardware compression ?

HTH,
Regards from Germany,
Philipp


Dwayne Allison schrieb:

Good Morning,
We are getting the following error on a tape backup:
Message . . . . :   Data compression not performed.
Cause . . . . . : Value *YES was specified on the DTACPR parameter. Data compression is not performed when optimum block size is used.
What do we need to change?

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