Seems as though you are attempting to treat the "symptom" as opposed to the 
"problem" - how about changing the MGMTCLAS, either with ALTER and/or with an 
SMS/ACS change.

Only to presume here that your objective is to prevent unintended dataset 
DELETION, due to a MGMTCLAS attribute having expired....

Sorry, just keyboarding out loud here !!

Scott Barry
SBBTech LLC


On Fri, 2 Aug 2024 15:04:16 +0000, 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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