Future?  I don't think so.  How about an IDCAMS or TSOBATCH print
COUNT(1) so you won't have to create any JCL.  And z/OS doesn't read
the whole file, so size will have little impact, just the files not
big enough to fill the buffers will be a little faster..

On Fri, Aug 2, 2024 at 10:06 AM Billy Ashton
<[email protected]> wrote:
>
> Hi friends! Here's another in the series of "Friday Foibles!" (Why these
> questions always come up on Fridays is beyond me!)
>
> We have a need to run a job that will perform a process like the Unix
> touch command, so that the last access date of a file is updated.
>
> We don't want to do things like allocate, open, and print one record, as
> some of these files are huge (25-50GB). The list of files is somewhat
> dynamic, and may change week to week.
>
> Does anyone have a job that will update the last access date for a list
> of files, and ideally, set the last access date into the future a week
> or two, to ensure that the files will not get archived (since I am not
> sure we could easily recall some of them again)?
>
> Thank you and best regards,
> Billy Ashton
>
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