Watch out! The date of a file is the date it was last written, *not* accessed!
There's an old, old, story of the MHV IBM manager that wanted to save (then) expensive disk space, so he ordered that all CMS systems with files older than some dd/mm/yy be erased from *all* disks by Operations Staff. In less than four hours almost everyone on the internal network had a copy of Martie's FIXDATE and it's default operation was to use today's date!
Rumor had it that some beginner Sysprog wiped out irrecoverable documentation of an important corporate project that was 5 years old and had been set aside due to other priorities.
Les Mark Pace wrote:
Can I manipulate the date of a CMS file? I want to test a program that deletes files older than a certain date. In linux I can use *touch* to set the date to whatever I choose.
