Steve...
My understanding is as follows
You can turn on compression at the client, or the server but not both.
With client compression off, and server compression on, the data will be
stored compressed-
another option is to turn off both clent and server compression, and use
hardware compression on the tape drives.

Steve White wrote:
>
> hi,
> mvs server, os/2 clients.  how does adsm store data? if compression is
> on for a client i know that the data is compressed at the client then
> sent over the network. what happens if compression is off? does adsm
> server store the data as uncompressed?
>
> thanks,
> steve