We have done that, but the resulting CPU load made for slower backups.

Orville L. Lantto
Datatrend Technologies, Inc.  (http://www.datatrend.com)
IBM Premier Business Partner
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Minnetonka, MN 55305
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        Subject:        DB2 API and Compression


We just switched from doing DB2 database dumps to disk and sweeping them
to TSM via dsmc to using the API and going direct from DB2 to TSM.

A quick search through the list archives did not turn up an answer to the
question, can we still compress the backups client side?

Basically, I want to save space in the disk storage pools and generate
less network traffic.  Especially considering the DB2 backups compress
somewhere around 70%