Frank Swarbrick wrote: >>>> On 5/20/2010 at 2:22 AM, in message > <29s9v5lniuvtpalf97r7chtu7ogfmj7...@4ax.com>, Binyamin Dissen > <bdis...@dissensoftware.com> wrote: snippage >> >> Submit a requirement. > > No doubt. I'm just amazed that such a requirement wasn't submited 30 years > ago. > > Frank
30 years ago IBM would have said (and IIRC did say) that those sort of timestamps are kept for the file, as other OSes keep such things for their files. (Granted, MVS keeps a reference data instead of a modification date.) Further, PDS members are not files, but parts of a file (physical files being called "data sets" in MVS parlance). If you want those sorts of timestamps kept in the file's data content, then make your application write such data when loading data into such a file. As has been stated, the linkage editor <-> program binder, and ISPF are two such applications which which write timestamps within the content of data written to their output files. Cheers, Greg ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
