FIXDATE can only change the "last update date" (i.e. the default date displayed by LISTFILE). SFS has also "last change date", that cannot be fiddled with. Explore LISTFILE (ALLDATES DTOLU and ALLDATES DTOLC
Btw: FIXDATE has now an official, undocumented alternative: DMSPLU, and I built a FIXDATE EXEC around this to give more freedom in DMSPLU's parameters (e.g. accept ISODATE and = signs as input). 2009/7/23 Les Koehler <[email protected]> > Reminds me of Marty Shapiro's FIXDATE MODULE :-) > > Les > > Kris Buelens wrote: > >> What is the harm in updating the reference date when one peruses a file to >>> >> see if it contains specific data strings? If one uses the last reference >> date to see if a file (e.g. a program, REXX exec) is still being used, >> such >> a scanning process should not update it. It never is a "real" use. At >> the >> other hand, we had a discussion with SAS several years ago: they used >> OLDDATEREF, and running SAS programs surely is "real" usage. >> GETFILES will not use OLDDATEREF, it has no parameters, and OLDDATEREF >> would >> never be a good default. >> >> Kris Buelens >> IBM Belgium, VM customer support >> >> -- Kris Buelens, IBM Belgium, VM customer support
