My answer to that question would be yes, but then again I am not an auditor. OTOH, Sarbanes-Oxley rules may require such maintenance of meta-data for forensic tracking purposes. You would have to check with compliance gurus to ocnfirm or deny that supposition.
Peter -----Original Message----- From: John Giltner [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, June 14, 2005 9:00 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: Setting the Creation Date for datasets Unless I am misunderstood he is creating a "MVS" file and not a Unix System Services file, so what attributes is he attempting to keep? Even if is he ftp'ing to Unix System Services what system attributes will he be maintaining, other than create date/time? The owner and group ID's and permissions will all be different. If who created is not the same, does it matter when it was actually created? From the point of view of an auditor. On Mon, 13 Jun 2005 14:20:11 -0400, Farley, Peter x23353 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >But this is a very normal thing to need to do, to maintain the original >create date/time of the data, no matter where it was created. An auditor >should applaud such attention to detail, because it preserves attribute >information about the data rather than losing it just because the data >crossed system boundaries. > >Making it part of the file name does not preserve it as a file attribute. >It is a crude workaround, at best. > >Peter _ This message and any attachments are intended only for the use of the addressee and may contain information that is privileged and confidential. If the reader of the message is not the intended recipient or an authorized representative of the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that any dissemination of this communication is strictly prohibited. If you have received this communication in error, please notify us immediately by e-mail and delete the message and any attachments from your system. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
