+1 I'm with Ed on this, I have never see the OS/360 facility used anywhere, including several banks/telcos/financial institutions I have worked for over the decades.
To Tom's specific point, ditto for the COBOL tie-in to that facility - I have never seen it used by anyone, even in the old reel/real tape days. The last time I even saw a large tape sort process that would benefit from that facility was in the early 1970's at a General Motors facility (stock dividend processing I think it was, there were 10 or 12 2400-series tape drives spinning madly forwards and backwards). I won't miss it's removal from COBOL at all. Peter -----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List <[email protected]> On Behalf Of Ed Jaffe Sent: Sunday, June 18, 2023 12:06 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: Checkpoint/restart in COBOL applications? On 6/18/2023 8:39 AM, Seymour J Metz wrote: > Checkpoint is an old (as in OS/360 old) facility that comes with restrictions > that make it less useful than it might otherwise be. I'm not sure what the > use case is these days. I have never seen the old checkpoint/restart facility used. -- This message and any attachments are intended only for the use of the addressee and may contain information that is privileged and confidential. If the reader of the message is not the intended recipient or an authorized representative of the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that any dissemination of this communication is strictly prohibited. If you have received this communication in error, please notify us immediately by e-mail and delete the message and any attachments from your system. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
