Checkpoint/Restart Processing

This chapter describes how the checkpoint/restart routine handles different types of user data sets, and gives additional guidelines on repositioning and preserving the contents of data sets. The end of this chapter includes notes about using checkpoint/restart with various programs and programming languages.

Table 1 contains directive information about this chapter's contents:

Table 1. Chapter 4. Checkpoint/Restart Processing
Section
Notes for User Data Sets
SMS-Managed Sequential Data Sets
VSAM Data Sets
Notes for Tape Labels and Files
Repositioning and Preserving the Contents of Data Sets
Buffering of Data Set Records
Preserving Data Set Contents
Allocating Devices during Deferred Checkpoint/Restart
Handling Checkpoint/Restart Errors
Using Checkpoint/Restart with Other Programs