ASM2 used to tuck things away in the VTOC via an exit. Last modified jobname & last modified date are the two fields i specifically remember being present in our setup. $RSVP could then be used to report on these "unofficial" fields.
On Mon, 1 Jun 2020 at 13:48, Allan Staller <[email protected]> wrote: > There is an old usermod that stored the date time somewhere in the F1 > DSCB. Check the CBTTAPE. > > -----Original Message----- > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List <[email protected]> On Behalf > Of Tom Brennan > Sent: Saturday, May 30, 2020 1:27 AM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: TIME a data set was created? > > [CAUTION: This Email is from outside the Organization. Unless you trust > the sender, Don’t click links or open attachments as it may be a Phishing > email, which can steal your Information and compromise your Computer.] > > Semi-Related - I seem to remember a software product, not sure what the > name was, that would poke a date and maybe other information in "unused" > fields in the VTOC for each dataset. Maybe it was a last-opened date or > similar. And it might have been a product that did a bit of what HSM does, > prior to HSM becoming popular. Just trying to jog my lost memories from > the early 1980's. Note: I did not inhale. > > -------- Original Message -------- > Subject: Re: TIME a data set was created? > From: "Gibney, Dave" <[email protected]> > Date: Fri, May 29, 2020 10:36 pm > To: [email protected] > > 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 <[email protected]> On > > Behalf Of Peter Vels > > Sent: Friday, May 29, 2020 9:43 PM > > To: [email protected] > > 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 > > <[email protected]> > > 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 <[email protected]> On > > > Behalf Of Peter Vels > > > Sent: Friday, May 29, 2020 7:01 PM > > > To: [email protected] > > > 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 [email protected] with the message: INFO > > > IBM-MAIN > > > > > > -------------------------------------------------------------------- > > > -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > > > send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO > > > IBM-MAIN > > > > > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send > > email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email > to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email > to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN > ::DISCLAIMER:: > ________________________________ > The contents of this e-mail and any attachment(s) are confidential and > intended for the named recipient(s) only. 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