Ron Hawkins wrote: >One area where PE encryption, as implemented on z is where it is used
>together with compression. >The horse must go in front of the cart, meaning compression must happen >before encryption, because it will be ineffective if you do it after. Not true with format-preserving data protection. Since the protected data has the same format as the original, it should compress just as well. With other forms of encryption, sure. And yes, this is a well-integrated feature of PE encryption! ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN