How to do it efficiently is a really good question. Did you look to see if DFDSS has a function to do that? If there were an IBM utility, I would expect to find it there.
Kirk Wolf Dovetailed Technologies https://coztoolkit.com On Fri, Aug 2, 2024, at 11:25 AM, Mike Schwab wrote: > Future? I don't think so. How about an IDCAMS or TSOBATCH print > COUNT(1) so you won't have to create any JCL. And z/OS doesn't read > the whole file, so size will have little impact, just the files not > big enough to fill the buffers will be a little faster.. > > On Fri, Aug 2, 2024 at 10:06 AM Billy Ashton > <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > Hi friends! Here's another in the series of "Friday Foibles!" (Why these > > questions always come up on Fridays is beyond me!) > > > > We have a need to run a job that will perform a process like the Unix > > touch command, so that the last access date of a file is updated. > > > > We don't want to do things like allocate, open, and print one record, as > > some of these files are huge (25-50GB). The list of files is somewhat > > dynamic, and may change week to week. > > > > Does anyone have a job that will update the last access date for a list > > of files, and ideally, set the last access date into the future a week > > or two, to ensure that the files will not get archived (since I am not > > sure we could easily recall some of them again)? > > > > Thank you and best regards, > > Billy Ashton > > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > > send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN > > > > -- > Mike A Schwab, Springfield IL USA > Where do Forest Rangers go to get away from it all? > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
