On Fri, 27 Jun 2014 08:13:39 -0500, Elardus Engelbrecht wrote: > >>NFS and FTP follow ISPF conventions for member ENQ, and NFS at least (I >>haven't tested FTP) provides member statistics. Do they likewise respect the >>DSN profile setting of STATS? > >Excellent questions! I have now tested FTP by uploading a text file to a PDS >member which was last updated in 2002. The stats were indeed updated by the >FTP. I don't know about 'respect'. > This is another case of IBM's chaotically implementing a valuable function in the wrong layer. Updating member stats should be built in to STOW, not implemented haphazardly or redundantly by various utilities. Several years ago, NFS stored incorrect member dates during leap year. I was unable to reproduce the problem in 2012.
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