Our storage team would know more about what they've done with zEDC, but I'm using it for compression of zFS file systems and JES2 Sysout written to spool.
Mark Jacobs Sent from ProtonMail, Swiss-based encrypted email. GPG Public Key - https://api.protonmail.ch/pks/lookup?op=get&search=markjac...@protonmail.com On Tuesday, April 16th, 2024 at 12:16 PM, Jousma, David <000001a0403c5dc1-dmarc-requ...@listserv.ua.edu> wrote: > Is anyone exploiting ZEDC data compression accelerator in your environments? > We recently licensed the enablement and are working through the issues in our > DEV environment. > > We initially enabled Extended Format/COMPACT ZP, for all DSORG PS datasets, > but are quickly finding that DFSORT, SAS, ISPF recovery datasets all have > issues. We’ve turned back off for now. > > There is no central location in any IBM doc(including recent REDBOOKS) that > discusses where we can and cannot leverage ZEDC. As it stands now, we had to > back out, and looking at taking a new approach in our ACS routines checking > for DSORG=PS, and then if not temp-dataset, or tape assign a DC with the > right options. > > What I am wondering is if anyone is further along that can share how they > rolled out? I really don’t want to have to make the applications teams have > to “opt-in” by coding a DC in their JCL or other dataset allocations. > > Dave Jousma > Vice President | Director, Technology Engineering > > > > > > This e-mail transmission contains information that is confidential and may be > privileged. It is intended only for the addressee(s) named above. If you > receive this e-mail in error, please do not read, copy or disseminate it in > any manner. If you are not the intended recipient, any disclosure, copying, > distribution or use of the contents of this information is prohibited. Please > reply to the message immediately by informing the sender that the message was > misdirected. After replying, please erase it from your computer system. Your > assistance in correcting this error is appreciated. > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
