I think the SMF records for non vsam is the only way to know time. The time/date the SMF record was created should be close to the time/date the dataset was created/touched.
I think for VSAM it is in the LISTC entry. I am not at work so I cannot validate this statement. Lizette -----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Charles Mills Sent: Thursday, June 06, 2013 8:59 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Age of datasets in hours, not days? For conventional "MVS" datasets, LISTCAT ... CREATION(n) gives me all datasets with a creation date of "n" days ago. Is there any way -- not apparently with LISTCAT, but *any* way -- to get a list of conventional datasets with a creation of "n" *hours* ago? Does MVS keep the time of creation, or only the date? (Or, given a conventional dataset name, to determine its creation time?) Charles ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
