RE: Create/Last Used Program Dates

Jerry,

I use DSPOBJD regularly to find new programs. It's a holdover from before we were journaling these things but it still works fine for what I need. I check create date and restore date to check on a weekly basis. Never had a problem with wonky create dates.


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From: midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Jerry C. Adams
Sent: Friday, December 09, 2011 8:29 AM
To: 'Midrange Systems Technical Discussion'
Subject: RE: Create/Last Used Program Dates

No CMS here. But I wondered if a CMS could/would retain the original
creation date. I haven't looked at APIs, but I couldn't find a CHG command
that would do that, though the RTVOBJD command can retrieve the creation
date.

Jerry C. Adams
IBM i Programmer/Analyst
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-----Original Message-----
From: midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Charles Wilt
Sent: Friday, December 09, 2011 10:04 AM
To: Midrange Systems Technical Discussion
Subject: Re: Create/Last Used Program Dates

A decent change management system should have that info...assuming you
don't have it set up to purge the logs.

Charles

On Fri, Dec 9, 2011 at 10:29 AM, Jerry C. Adams <midrange@xxxxxxxx> wrote:

Did some more searches and still couldn't find the answer to my first
question.  I thought, perhaps, that when a program was re-compiled, that

the

creation date *might* be unchanged; i.e., retaining it from the object it
was replacing.

But I tested that (lame) theory by re-compiling a program.  Its creation
date is now today.  So I guess there's no way to tell when a program was
originally created absent a journal entry, right?

Jerry C. Adams
IBM i Programmer/Analyst
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fruit salad.
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-----Original Message-----
From: midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Jerry C. Adams
Sent: Friday, December 09, 2011 7:26 AM
To: Midrange-L
Subject: Create/Last Used Program Dates

I have a program that, using DSPOBJD, shows a creation date of 9 May 2006.
I know there's been a lot of discussion about creation dates and,
especially, last used dates here.  I tried searching the archives and the
Info Center but could not find what I need.



Is the created date the actual date that the object was created?  It,

also,

shows a last used date of 9 December 2011 (today).  I ran this at 0630,

when

I first got here, and I'm the first one in the building.  In fact every
program I checked (even unused or rarely used ones) shows the same last

used

date.  The library was backed up (via a WRKJOBSCDE entry) early this
morning.  It seems that saving the library also changes the last used

date;

is that correct?



Jerry C. Adams

IBM i Programmer/Analyst

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