Syncsort ZPSaver offers a Syncsort architecture to offload processing to zIIP engines. This means that for copy, SMS version 1 compression and sort processing, Syncsort ZPSaver offloads the maximum amount of TCB and SRB CPU time processing to the zIIP engines in most use cases. This offload lowers the workload on the main CPU, frees the CPU for other workloads and reduces the TCB processing time.
For copy and sort applications, maximum performance improvements occur with feature usage, such as INCLUDE/OMIT, INREC, OUTREC and OUTFIL.
For sort and copy steps with SMS compression, maximum performance improvement occurs when SORTOUT is compressed.
For copy applications, input and output processing is improved by reading and writing blocks in parallel when the input/output is allocated on PAV-capable devices. This parallel processing reduces the elapsed time of the copy application.