On 17-Aug-2015 07:59 -0600, John McKee wrote:
This program is running in our controlling subsystem. I saw a post
from years ago in the archives where it was running in QBATCH and is
for cleanup.
I do Go SAVE 21 every week. I wondered about this program before I
searched the archives. A DSPOBJD shows this program has no
information recorded for Save/Restore or last used date.
Why would this program not have anything for save date/time?
Again, v5r4 - terminal. Maybe a few months now.
Definitely not an issue. Just curious.
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http://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/ssw_i5_54/rzahc/rzahcswscompres.htm]
"A call to a system program does not update its usage information..."
FWiW:
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http://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/ssw_i5_54/cl/savlib.htm]
"... unless *NO is specified for the Update history (UPDHST) parameter,
the description of each library and each object is updated with the
date, place, and time it was last saved. If a group of libraries is
saved by specifying *NONSYS, *ALLUSR, or *IBM for the LIB parameter, the
date, time, and place are updated in the history information for a data
area in QSYS (data area QSAVLIBALL, QSAVALLUSR, or QSAVIBM).
..."
As someone already noted, Save System (SAVSYS) is how the program in
QSYS are saved. There is no Update History (UPDHST) on that command.
Refer to the data area QSAVIBM, presuming the save history was
requested. Similar to the above whereby a Data Area is used to record
the Last-Saved information across the save rather than the individual
objects:
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http://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/ssw_i5_54/rzaiu/rzaiurzaiu264.htm]
"... use the DSPOBJD command to display the appropriate data area that
is shown in Data areas that contain save history.
...
The following commands do not update the save history information for
the individual objects that the system saves:
• Save System (SAVSYS)
• Save Security (SAVSECDTA)
• Save Configuration (SAVCFG)
• Save Save File Data (SAVSAVFDTA)
• Save System Information (SAVSYSINF)
For some save operations, the system updates history information in a
data area. In some cases, the system updates the data area instead of
updating the individual objects. In other cases, the system updates the
data area in addition to the individual objects.
Beginning with V5R1, when you install the operating system, the system
will update the data areas. However, the data areas will appear as if
you used RSTOBJ to restore them. The system does not support the
QSAVDLOALL data area.
The following table shows these commands and the associated data areas:
Table 1. Data areas that contain save historyCommand Associated Data
Area Individual Objects Updated?
SAVCFG QSAVCFG No
SAVLIB *ALLUSR QSAVALLUSR Yes1
SAVLIB *IBM QSAVIBM Yes1
SAVLIB *NONSYS QSAVLIBALL Yes1
SAVSECDTA QSAVUSRPRF No
SAVSTG QSAVSTG No
SAVSYS QSAVSYS, QSAVUSRPRF, QSAVCFG No
SAVSYSINF QSYSINF No
1 -If you specify UPDHST(*NO), the system does not update the Date
last saved field in either the object or the data area.
..."
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