Re: Finding the creator of an IFS object?

[Bradley Stone <bvstone@xxxxxxxxx>]

I would say if it's not available in the stat() API it's not there.  But
you bring up a very good point...


On Wed, Jun 26, 2013 at 11:42 AM, James H. H. Lampert <
jamesl@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> In order to guard against damnfool admins doing a DLTUSRPRF with
> OWNOBJOPT(*DLT) on former employees (thereby wiping out IFS objects they
> created), our CRM product, when it creates IFS objects, attempts to
> reassign ownership of them to the user's primary group profile.
>
> But that leaves us high and dry in attempting to track down the origin
> of defective IFS objects, since options 8 and 9 in WRKLNK show the
> owner, but not the creator.
>
> QSYS objects, of course, don't have that problem, since they have
> separate OWNER and CREATOR attributes. Indeed, that's why, when we
> create QSYS objects to be shipped, we have separate "creator" user
> profiles, so that the objects we ship all have IBM-supplied user
> profiles as OWNER, and some generic name like QVCREATOR or WTCREATOR as
> CREATOR.
>
> Is there someplace where IFS objects keep track of a CREATOR, separately
> from the OWNER? Someplace that doesn't show up in WRKLNK Options 8 and
> 9, but does show up someplace else?
>
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