create ZIP and GZIP files natively on OS/400 and i5/OS
compress spooled files, IFS and physical DB/2 files (PF-DTA, PF-SRC) and save files in ZIP format
cross platform interoperability
For administering ZIP archives, it is possible to choose the input file system as well as the output file system for the output flexibly. This way it becomes feasible to compress and decompress directly between DB/2 and IFS.
Depending on the destination system, where a file to be compressed will be used, the translation of the uncompressed data can be chosen between different CCSID, this means between ASCII and EBCDIC.