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?
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> 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
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