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)? Why? Seems like you are trying to bypass management controls as to when datasets are moved to L2 storage. If you need these datasets to remain on disk, assign them the proper SMS attributes. Make the case to your storage management people. Also, OPEN doesn't need to take more work if the file is big. Use a small number of buffers (or use BSAM). -- Binyamin Dissen <[email protected]> http://www.dissensoftware.com Director, Dissen Software, Bar & Grill - Israel ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
