[WDSCI-L] Source change date modified

["Ewout N Boter" <ewout.boter@xxxxxxxxxx>]

When I have opened a source member (for editing) in the LPEX editor, and 
close the member again, then the source change date/time (on the server) 
is modified, even if no changes have been made to the source. Therefore, 
we often run into the following situation:

We open a member in the LPEX editor, we make some changes to the source, 
we save the changes, we compile the member, we do some testing, we close 
the member (because no further changes are needed). Now, when we want to 
transfer the modified object to the test environment, our software change 
management product (Tight as a Drum, marketed by Unbeaten Path 
International) checks if the change date/time of the source member matches 
with the source change date/time information that is contained in the 
object. (This is a reasonable check, because it prevents that the object 
is not in line with the source.) Because the source change date/time was 
changed by WDSCi on the last closing of the member, an error is signalled. 


This is a bit annoying. We now have to first close the member, and then do 
the compile (from the Remote Systems view, or from the iSeries Table 
view). Everytime we forget this, an error is signalled upon transfer to 
the test environment, and we have to compile the source again.

Is there a way to prevent the update of the source change date/time when 
no actual changes have been made to the source member? 

Ewout