Enhance XCOMPRESS to compress PDSe

[Emlyn Williams]

We use XCOMPRESS/VOLCOMPRESS to compress PDS and sequential datasets on our volumes. 

However there is no utility to compress PDSe datasets.

While PDSe does reuse space when you add new members, we can't release space without copying the dataset. With Endevor we regularly find that PDSe datasets are filled up then emptied as projects are moved through the lifecycle resulting in a lot of wasted DASD.

[Ray Frazier]

Hi Emlyn,
Thank you for your suggestion, I have opened a story on the PDSMAN backlog
to discuss.

One idea, one we have had Endevor clients use, is to use a FastCopy step
(with an EMPTYO command) or the PDSM10 utility (with PARM=EMPTYO) in
processors to reset PDSE libraries after the content is copied. Is this
something that may help?

Regards.

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Broadcom Inc.

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[Emlyn Williams]

Hi Ray, Thank you for reviewing this. The dataset might not be empty so we can't EMPTYO.