At one time, message files were susceptible to corruption if
the accesing program was aborted or the system aborted. If
you were using a message file to queue records for processing
and a failure occurred, message file corruption would cause
loss of such queue records.

Is this still the case today or has this issue been dealt with
as MPE has moved forward?  Can message files be relied upon to
retain records if the system or writting program fails? What
is the current reliability of message files as a persistent
queueing mechanisim?

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