Exploiting data compression devices

Enabling hardware compression acceleration (AIX, Linux only)
zEnterprise Data Compression (z/OS only)

Enabling hardware compression acceleration (AIX, Linux only)
You can use hardware compression acceleration to increase the speed of data compression and decompression on some Power Systems or IBM Z systems. If your application uses java.util.zip classes to provide Java compression services, hardware compression can reduce CPU consumption and shorten processing times.
zEnterprise Data Compression (z/OS only)
zEnterprise Data Compression (zEDC) is a hardware and software compression acceleration solution that can increase the speed of data compression on some z/OS systems. If your application uses Java compression services extensively, zEDC can provide reduced CPU consumption and shorter processing times.