On Mon, 16 Jan 2012 18:15:55 +0000, Bill Fairchild wrote:

>Is it the ID that renamed it last?

It should be at the option of the renaming ID, governed by
RACF permissions.

>Is it the ID that restored it from a backup copy?
>
Only if it's restored with RENAME.  (Similar concerns apply
to the Last Modified time.  It used to be wrong: if a data
set was restored, it would willy-nilly be backed up at the
first following backup cycle.  Perhaps it's been fixed.)


>-----Original Message-----
>From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of 
>Lizette Koehler
>Sent: Monday, January 16, 2012 6:56 AM
>
>>I am not certain what an OWNER of a PDS is.
>
>>1) Is it the ID that ALLOCATED the file?

Yes.

>>2) Is it the ID that UPDATED a member in the PDS?
> 
No, that information pertains to the member, and belongs in
the PDS directory.  But it should be maintained by the access
methods, not sporadically by various utilities such as FTP,
NFS, and ISPF.  (And the timestamp should be GMT.)

-- gil

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