Is zEDC Compatible with Easytrieve Report Generator?

Products

• Easytrieve Report Generator

Issue/Introduction

Easytrieve and compatibility with zEDC (zEnterprise Data Compression)
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.

Is Easytrieve Report Generator compatible with a zEDC upgrade?

Environment

Easytrieve Report Generator, release 11.6

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.