The time of creation is not stored by z/OS for non-Unix System Services files. Your options are the logging provided by SMF, or change the application to store into the Unix System Services file system.
> -----Original Message----- > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List <IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU> On > Behalf Of Peter Vels > Sent: Friday, May 29, 2020 9:43 PM > To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU > Subject: Re: TIME a data set was created? > > A number of people both on and off the list have mentioned SMF. Even if I > had permission to read SMF data (I don't) I think it would be too much > overhead to scan weeks of SMF records to find a few (~50) timestamps. > > On Sat, 30 May 2020 at 13:44, Lizette Koehler <stars...@mindspring.com> > wrote: > > > Do you have any tools like MICS/SAS/MXG? > > > > If not, can you download from cbttape.org the tool DAF (Dataset Audit > > Facility) - you can feed it SMF data based on dataset names, and it > > will provide SMF records that probably have a timestamp > > > > Lizette > > > > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List <IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU> On > > Behalf Of Peter Vels > > Sent: Friday, May 29, 2020 7:01 PM > > To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU > > Subject: TIME a data set was created? > > > > How does one get the TIME a z/OS data set was created? The date is > > easy, but I'm after the time. > > > > Background: Periodically I update a list of data sets created by an > > application over which I have no control. I want to sort the list by > > descending date and time. Where can I get the time from? LISTDSI > > won't provide it unless the data set is on an EAV volume (doesn't apply). > > > > Regards, > > PV > > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send > > email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN > > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send > > email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN > > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to > lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
