Jim C. Nasby mentioned : => Are you seeing much gain using ztext over using EXTENDED? When storage is defined external, there is a visible gain, but not really significant enough to make me want to use it. And I had instances where not all the rows would uncompress again afterwards. I want to try and get the bzip2 compression working, and see if that does anything for me. But at this stage, I think it's as compressed as I will be able to get it. I'm not getting the best results, because a lot of the data rows don't contain enough data to compress properly, and I think with ztext the column sizes sometimes end up bigger than they were to start off with. Kind Regards Stefan ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 5: don't forget to increase your free space map settings
