Creation date of load module

antonrino.b · New User Joined: 10 Jan 2006 Posts: 76 Location: Germany

Hi,

How to get the creation date of a load module?

Thanks,
Antu.

hikaps14 · Active User Joined: 02 Sep 2005 Posts: 189 Location: Noida

hi ,

u hav to make a bit of gusses.

i mean
open the loadlib in view mode
then try a find 'cc'
cc - it is the century year .

if u find any date in loadlib it got to be
creation Date .

Thanks ,
-Kapil .

antonrino.b · New User Joined: 10 Jan 2006 Posts: 76 Location: Germany

Yeah hikaps14. Ofcourse, I can open the load module and search for a timestamp.

But I want to do that in batch mode and have to do that for all the members in a load lib.

So, I am in need of a service which would get the creation date of a load module.

I too did a bit of research. Let me list my findings..

1) I think that the load module created is dependent of the compiler. Hence the location of timestamp might vary.

2) And also, I observed that some of the load modules had timestamp in the form of yyyymmddhhmmssnnnnnn. and some other had yy/mm/dd hh:mm:ss:nnnn..

3) I tried using a pattern search in the load module using
f p"##########" to get all the occurences of tendigit numerals, so that I would end up in some timestamp. What I observed was, the load module had lot of timestamps (all those of called modules). But, The first occurence was the creation date.

4) Let me tell you another interesting thing. I found that the timestamp appeared next to the second occurence of the corresponding loadname. But some load modules were exceptions to this.

shreevamsi · Posted: Tue May 30, 2006 4:04 pm

HI.
THIS JCL PRINTS THE DAY OF CREATION OF THE LOAD MODULE

//STEP010 EXEC PGM=AMBLIST
//SYSPRINT DD SYSOUT=*
//SYSOUT DD SYSOUT=*
//LOADLB DD DSN=MY.LOADLIB.DIR,DISP=SHR
//SYSIN DD *
LISTIDR DDN=LOADLB,MEMBER=xxxxxx
//* Other options:
HOPE THIS WILL HELP YOU THRU

~Vamsi Krishna Ramaraju

antonrino.b · New User Joined: 10 Jan 2006 Posts: 76 Location: Germany

Hey, Thanks Vamsi..

It gives the creation date.

But the timestamp which AMBLIST service gives as output differs with that in the load module by some seconds.

antonrino.b · New User Joined: 10 Jan 2006 Posts: 76 Location: Germany

I have only one option left with, to get the creation date.

I will use the AMBLIST service to get the creation date of the load module. and extract only the year, month, date, hour, minutes part from that and form a string of integers and search for that in the corresponding loadlib.

And, I should also take care of the situation where timestamp being embedded in the load module as yy/mm/dd hh:mm:ss...

Thanks vamsi and kapil..

Please let me know if you come across any another easier(direct) method than this.

antonrino.b · New User Joined: 10 Jan 2006 Posts: 76 Location: Germany

Hi,

I tried to use the above service using REXX. But it is abending. I couldnt find where did I go wrong. Can someone help me?

I have saved the instreamdata in the sequential dataset anton.sysin.data.

This is the REXX routine I used:

mmwife · Super Moderator Joined: 30 May 2003 Posts: 1592

Hi Antu,

Just a few comments on what you're trying to do. You may have already thought of this, but here goes anyway:

The loads that you're scanning may be using functions to get a timestamp for other reasons. There's also a "when compiled" function in COBOL. These may account for the multiple timestamps (t/s) you encounter.

If I'm not mistaken, the "create date" is really the "last compile date". Is that what you're looking for?