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PKZIP® for i5/OS® - Feature Benefits
ZIP archives reduce file size by as much as 95%
Get bottom-line cost reductions through conservation of bandwidth, storage space, and backup tapes. PKWARE® uses industry-leading algorithms that compress files more efficiently than free compression libraries such as ZLIB.

Cross-platform data portability
ZIP archives are portable data containers that can be read and decompressed on virtually all major enterprise operating systems. PKWARE is the only single-source vendor of ZIP compression products across the major enterprise operating systems — guaranteeing interoperability.

ZIP compression from the creator of the .ZIP file format
PKWARE, original developer of the ZIP compression format, has made ZIP specifications freely available to the public as a standard for compressed data storage. This has made .ZIP one of the most widely used file formats in the world.

Traditional password-based data file protection 
PKZIP for i5/OS supports traditional encryption using pass-phrases to protect valuable information. Files encrypted with PKZIP may be decrypted and extracted on major enterprise computing platforms using PKZIP, SecureZIP®, or the free ZIP Reader for Windows.

Very large archive support
Over 2 billion files can be included in a ZIP archive.

 

Large file size support
PKZIP can compress files of over 9 exabytes in size.

 

Self-extracting files for end users and other platforms
ZIP archives can be formatted as self-extracting files for Windows end users or for UNIX®/Linux® operating systems, so that compressed data can be easily unzipped in one easy step.

1Step2Tape
Write files to tape in a single step, significantly reducing the time required to write to and extract files from tape media.