Is zEDC Compatible with CA easytrieve?

Products

• PanAudit Plus
• Easytrieve Report Generator
• PAN/SQL

Issue/Introduction

Easytrieve and compatibility with zEDC (zEnterprise Data Compression)

 

Is CA Easytrieve Report generator compatible with a zEDC upgrade?

Environment

Compression of Data

Resolution

Easytrieve Report generator is compatible with a zEDC upgrade. 

No issues, and no reported problems. 

 

It is not a concern for any program that accesses data using QSAM/BSAM access methods. 

The compression/expansion happens inside the QSAM/BSAM access methods.

Additional Information

IBM's z Enterprise Data Compression (zEDC) has many benefits: it is relatively straightforward and inexpensive to implement, it can be leveraged by numerous widely used access methods and products, it reduces disk storage requirements and I/O elapsed times by delivering very good compression ratios, and the CPU cost is very minimal since almost all the processing is offloaded to the hardware.