Is z/OS used to manage any of the systems where your retirement money is invested? Social Security? Brokerage firms? Banks? If so, you may have a vested interest in this issue even after you retire.
Jim Mulder -----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Assembler List <ASSEMBLER-LIST@LISTSERV.UGA.EDU> On Behalf Of Phil Smith III Sent: Saturday, April 12, 2025 12:19 PM To: ASSEMBLER-LIST@LISTSERV.UGA.EDU Subject: Re: Store-Clock-Fast Facility Jim Mulder wrote, in part: >This bigger concern for programs that use STCK or STCKF is the TOD >clock wrap in September 2042....there is a lot of code in operating >systems, middleware, and probably applications, that needs to be >changed to use a different comparison technique before then. Or we need to retire-that's my plan! Not that it likely affects many folks here, but on a zPDT or equivalent, STCKF is no faster than STCK in my testing. That's actually an improvement: a few years ago, STCKF was much *slower*. IBM fixed that.
