COMPRESS

Description

Specifies whether or not screens received from applications and screens stored when switching between sessions; that is, escape screens, are compressed.

This common session parameter is applicable to these control statements: SYSTEM (see SYSTEM statement), PROFILE (see PROFILE statement), USER (see USER statement), TERMINAL (see TERMINAL statement), and APPL (see APPL statement).

Format

COMPress [Yes|No|ON|OFF]

Default: COMPRESS Yes

Usage

COMPRESS=Yes causes compression. The saving from this can be evaluated using the QUERY STATS command.

If PCTRANSFER is set to ON, then a COMPRESS=Yes setting is ignored; compression is not performed.

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