Re: Days Used count

THANKS Jim !

BAD me - I USED to actually hit Help - but spaced it on this one !!

Chuck

Jim Langston wrote:

> Chuck,
>
> Do a DSPOBJD on the file/program.  Scroll down to the Change Date/Time field
> and hit F1.  A window will pop up and say this:
>
>                   Change Date/Time - Help
>
> For most objects:
>
>     Indicates the date and time of the last change to the
>     object.
>
> For database files:
>
>     Indicates the date and time that the object was first
>     modified after a SAVLIB request.  If the data is
>     changed again, the change is not reflected on the
>     DSPOBJD command until another SAVLIB request is
>     processed and the data is changed again.  You can use
>     the Display File Description (DSPFD) command to show
>     the last change date and time value to find out when
>     each member of the file was modified.
>
> Regards,
>
> Jim Langston
>
> Date: Fri, 22 Dec 2000 09:20:12 -0500
> From: Chuck Lewis <clewis@iquest.net>
> Subject: Re: Days Used count
>
> I've seen this too Leif and if YOU don't know... :-)
>
> I thought some time back someone explained this to me. It looks as though
> different type of access to an object reflect differently in this usage
> reporting. PERFECT example is that yesterday I was running a CL that cleared 
>to
> PF's and then ran an RPG program that read 2 other files, and then reloaded 
>the
> files that were cleared.
>
> I was doing a display object description on them and noticed that while the
> Change Date was the same for BOTH of them, the Change Time was different by 2
> HOURS. These BOTH got cleared one right after the other in the CL and got 
>written
> to in the SAME RPG progam that ran in under 9 minutes ! As I dug further into
> this I discovered this:
>
> The Change Time on the first file was the time the job was FIRST run on 
>12/21...
> I then changed the CL and added this second file and reran things and the 
>Change
> time on the second file was again, the time this job was first RERUN with this
> second file. It was executed 2 more times and the Change Time still reflected 
>the
> FIRST time either file was used on 12/21 !!! ???
>
> Chuck
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