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Sample Compression Analysis Report

This section contains a partial sample compression analysis report generated by the TBECMPCA utility. The first page is a summary page. The report provides a separate detail page for each algorithm analyzed.

The following sample shows a summary page generated by TBECMPCA:

CA Tape Encryption rxx.x Compression Analysis (TBECMPCA-T5Q3133 03/16/07 13.55) PAGE 1 The current date and time is: Friday MAR 16, 2007 12.56.21 The CPU ID of this system is: XE90 Execution parameters: NONE Input Data Set Name: ASM.TLMSDV.VMF Compression and Expansion Summary Block Size ..................................8,000 Blocks Read ...................................200 Total Bytes Processed ...................1,595,000 Fastest Method .................................S0 Best Compression Rate ..........................S8 Recommended Method .............................S0 Compression Percent of Total CPU Micro Algorithm Compression Seconds (MuSecs) ----------- ----------- ----------------- S0 61% 11,060 S1 49% 64,115 S2 48% 57,319 S3 43% 64,168 S4 68% 29,364 S5 68% 28,675 S6 68% 28,100 S7 73% 54,399 S8 77% 39,958 H1 61% 14,403 H2 60% 14,304 H3 62% 13,582 H4 60% 13,217 H5 63% 14,670

The following sample shows a detailed page generated by TBECMPCA, listing the results of the analysis for a particular algorithm, in this case, method S0:

CA Tape Encryption rxx.x Compression Analysis (TBECMPCA-T5Q3133 03/16/07 13.55) PAGE 2

The current date and time is: Friday MAR 16, 2007 12.56.21 The CPU ID of this system is: XE90 Execution parameters: NONE Input Data Set Name: ASM.TLMSDV.VMF Compress and Expand with Method S0 -- Software RLE (Run Length Encoding) Percent of compression .........................61% Compression CPU MuSecs ......................7,714 Expansion CPU MuSecs ........................3,346 Original bytes ..........................1,595,000 Compressed bytes ..........................627,486 Blocks processed ..............................200 Blocks not compressed ...........................0 Blocks not expanded .............................0