Subject: Re: VSAM - IDCAMS Backup Puzzle
From: David Stuart (David.Stuart@ventura.org)
Date: Wed Sep 02 2009 - 14:24:05 EDT
Hi Jeff, Thanks. Turning off the drive's compression probably won't gain me a lot, but I'll give it a try. Dave Dave Stuart Prin. Info. Systems Support Analyst County of Ventura, CA 805-662-6731 David.Stuart@ventura.org>>> "Jeffrey Barnard" <bsiopti@bsiopti.com> 9/2/2009 10:49 AM >>> Dave, OPTI-TAPE virtual tape volumes are normally compressed. This type of data will not allow the drive to compress it. At leaat not very well. This may explain what you are seeing. Regards Jeff David Stuart wrote: > Hi Kevin, > > Density is a good point. Hadn't thought about that. Cat2 is full of Virtual Tape files, written/managed by Jeff Barnard's OptiTape product. > > Cat1 is regular COBOL VSAM files. > > > Dave -- Jeffrey C Barnard Barnard Software, Inc. http://www.bsiopti.com BSI 407-323-4773 Support 407-688-7123 No trees were killed in the creation of this message, however several electrons were terribly inconvenienced.
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