Re: Warning-BPCS 405 CD data files with bad creation dates

Thanks for the suggestions.

MacWheel99@aol.com wrote:

> > Anyone know if there is a way to change the date created in
> >  physical and logical files without recreating the file?
>
> Yes, I did so once by accident, when trying to recover a lost object.
> Think in terms of a large scale save of your files, then a large scale
> restore of your files, except that the job date of the restore is the date
> you want to be the recreated date of your files.
>
> Suggest you test this first on a small scale to verify this works as I say on
> your current hardware operating system combination.

We haven't tried a full scale save restore yet, but would like to try some other
things first.  For the large scale restore to work, I think we would have to 
save
all the data files, then delete the bad files, then restore the saved files.  
This
would be like initializing your disks then restoring from tape. Kind of scary.  
If
we don't delete the files, I think they will keep the same creation date, but 
will
test this.

Another possible problem with this that if we already have multiple members, I
think it might save, then restore them in date order and just give them a new
date.  When I created duplicate objects of the GJW file, the duplicate object 
had
new dates, but the incorrect member was created first (the workstation member).

<snip>

> Caveat - IBM needs to restore physicals before restoring the logicals over
> them.  This should not be a problem when logicals & physicals are in the same
> library & use the standard BPCS naming convention of PHYSICAL_L## for
> logical, but SSA BMRS & PTFs have a penchant for including some logicals in
> the fix-library that apply to the physicals in the main library, and the fix
> library is alphabetically before the main library.

During our conversion, we tried to get all the logicals in the same library as 
the
physicals.  This includes our own logicals over the BPCS files.

<snip>

> We converted to BPCS CD last year & did not have this problem.  Is it
> possible that someone on your conversion team was testing Y2K dates & did not
> get reset back to contemporary date when doing something else?

Not likely.  Since we were testing on the production box, we did not set the
machine date forward.

Dave Murvin
DRM Enterprises, Inc.
davem@drme.com



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