Bateleur Holdings Group

Lively zip utility software for any environment

Moving data from one platform to another can be time-consuming and tedious - but it's also critically important for every large organisation. In recognition of the impact these transmissions can have on bottom line performance, Bateleur Software Solutions developed ZIPDITTO, zip utility software for the ADABAS NATURAL environment.

Specifically written to handle columnar data, ZIPDITTO achieves a dramatically high rate of compression in an incredibly short time. One of South Africa's leading financial services firms, cut the transmission time for a file between Johannesburg and Cape Town from 30 hours to three hours and 20 minutes with ZIPDITTO.

How does it work?

For example, an organisation creating a data warehouse needs to move massive amounts of data from its mainframe to the data warehouse server. The IT manager faces three hurdles: preparing the data on the mainframe; transferring it; and loading it into the data warehouse tables.

The first hurdle can be overcome by using programs to extract data from the database. Secondly, FTP can be used to transfer the data to the data warehouse server, and the third part is handled by data warehouse software.

Typically, the time-consuming element lies in transmitting the data, shortening this leg requires that the data is compressed first and then decompressed when it arrives at the data warehouse server.

The table below shows the times taken to transmit raw data compared to that required to compress it up front using InfoZip's zip utility for S/390 and ZIPDITTO.

Product	Action	Elapsed Mins.	Total Mins.	Comp. Rate
FTP	FTP uncompressed data	35:42	35:42	0%
Infozip and FTP	Zip FTP compressed data	28:47 1:40	30:27	96%
ZIPDITTO and FTP	Zip FTP compressed data Unzip	4:18 1:40 5:56	11:54	96%

Contact Us

Please contact Donald Abbot at donald@bateleur.co.za or 011 691 1600 for more information