First of all, I'm not a friend of using the global compress option, as datasets consisting solely or mainly of numeric data do not profit from compression; instead, the physical file size is often increased.
So I advise you look out for the location where the compress option is set for your interactive process and remove it. Instead use the individual option on datasets when they are created, then inspect the log if compressing makes sense (considerable reduction of phyiscal file size), and remove the compress=yes option if the effect is negligible or counter-productive.
Code written like that will then also compress in batch mode where compression is desired.
Also see Maxim 31, especially the last sentence.
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