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[saraswathi]

hi,

i am using ( compress=yes ) option in my SAS code. for certian datasets it shows the below message.

NOTE: COMPRESSING DATA SET WORK.aaa DECREASED SIZE BY 26.57 PERCENT. COMPRESSED IS 2473 PAGES; UN-COMPRESSED WOULD REQUIRE 3368 PAGES.
for some other cases it is showing below detail.
Note:COMPRESSING DATA SET WORK.xxx INCREASED SIZE BY 69.63 PERCENT.COMPRESSED IS 1318 PAGES; UN-COMPRESSED WOULD REQUIRE 777 PAGES.

COMPRESS should decrease the size rite?why i am getting message like this. please clarify.

Thanks,
Saraswathi

[Dibakar]