I think the most common zip/unzip utilites out there are called PKZIP.EXE and PKUNZIP.EXE. In our case we installed the WinZip product and ivoke their WZZIP.EXE and WZUNZIP.EXE utilities. We then built reusable UC4 jobs that invoke these two utilities, and use them from multiple workflows.
In my opinion, you should research what is the preferred zip tool for your datacenter and use that.