Compressing data with genwqe_gzip

Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9.2 LPAR mode z/VM guest

GenWQE provides two tools, genwqe_gzip and genwqe_gunzip that can be used in place of the common code gzip and gunzip tools. The GenWQE versions of the tools use hardware acceleration if it is available.

Procedure

Run the genwqe_gzip command with the -AGENWQE parameter to compress a file.

# genwqe_gzip -AGENWQE <file>

The -AGENWQE parameter ensures that the correct, PCIe-attached, accelerator card is used. Also use this option when decompressing data with the genwqe_gunzip command. See the man pages for other options.