Re: Last Used Date

Gary,

In a message dated 98-04-01 08:02:20 EST, you write:

<<snip>>
> Our system was converted over from a System/38 & there are still many 
>  objects out there that have not been recompiled on the AS/400.  An 
>  object that was removed from the system because the Last Used Date on 
>  it was zero but the program has indeed been used many times since it 
>  was tranferred over from the System/38 (several years ago).  After 
>  recovering the source & recompiling it (at which time the last used 
>  date is blank) then running the option, the last used date & days 
>  last used are filled in correctly.
<<snip>>

Now _there's_ something you don't see every day!  I can only immediately think
of five things that _might_ cause this, and two are _highly_ unlikely:

1.  You upgraded /400's, and the object hasn't been used since the upgrade
(such as a physical inventory program that only gets used once or twice/year).
2.  The object somehow missed going through the object template conversion
that ocurred back at V2Rx(1?), when IBM added more object information fields.
3.  The object was restored from a release prior to the object conversion
mentioned under 2, and the restore command for your version at the time wasn't
performing the template conversion as it should.
4.  You had to perform a system restore, and the object hasn't been used
since.
5.  The object was actually being used out of a library higher in the library
list (ie., existed in two places on the system) that got deleted at the same
time.

Strange!  

Dean Asmussen
Enterprise Systems Consulting, Inc.
Fuquay-Varina, NC  USA
E-Mail:  DAsmussen@aol.com

"It's a rare person who wants to hear what he doesn't want to hear." -- Dick
Cavett
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