RE: Create/Last Used Program Dates

I'm not sure about the object restore, Paul, as I haven't done any empirical
testing. But I suspect you are correct because CRTDUPOBJ and CPYLIB do have
a create date = the date of the copy, not the date in the original object.

Jerry C. Adams
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Subject: RE: Create/Last Used Program Dates

I may be missing a nuanced conversation here but ...AFAIK the create date is
the create date is the create date. The change date may be affected by a
couple of operations, but the create date is the compile date. I may be
wrong, but I have no reason to believe otherwise.

Now, if the program object was placed on the system by a restore command
then this may be a different kettle of fish.


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Or the source could have been changed at a later date. I do that
periodically when I want to add some documentation to the source (radical
idea, I know).

Jerry C. Adams
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-----Original Message-----
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Jerry,

You could look at the creation date on the source member used to create the
program. It won't be exact (the program could have been compiled on a later
date) but that could be close enough for your purposes.

Paul Morgan

Principal Programmer Analyst
IT Supply Chain/Replenishment

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Subject: RE: Create/Last Used Program Dates

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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-----Original Message-----
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[mailto:midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Jerry C. Adams
Sent: Friday, December 09, 2011 7:26 AM
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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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