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raj14

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PostPosted: Sun Jun 15, 2008 3:46 pm
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I'd like to if there is any way to know the date created of the GDG that's on TAPE.


Raj K
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dick scherrer

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PostPosted: Sun Jun 15, 2008 10:07 pm
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Hello Raj K and welcome to the forums,

If you have the proper permissions, you could look in the Tape Management system. If you don't have access or don't know how, you can talk with your tape management people and they can tell you when the tape was created.
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PostPosted: Mon Jun 16, 2008 4:19 am
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Hi,
listcat commnad will tell you the date the tape was created.

Gerry
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Bill Dennis

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PostPosted: Mon Jun 16, 2008 7:06 pm
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LISTCAT will show you when the catalog entry was added. It could be different than the actual creation date if the tape was uncataloged and recataloged. The tape mgmt system database would be the most accurate.
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PostPosted: Tue Jun 17, 2008 11:05 am
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Thank you so much for the reply. But i would like to whether where do I need to use this LISTCAT..

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gcicchet

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PostPosted: Tue Jun 17, 2008 11:25 am
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Hi,

as Dennis has stated, as long as you have a Tape Management System that's the best option.

Second option would be to dump the label of the tape and then LISTCAT.


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Bill Dennis

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PostPosted: Wed Jun 18, 2008 7:21 pm
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Go to ISPF option 6 and enter
Code:
LISTCAT ENTRY('your.dataset.name') ALL
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PostPosted: Sat Jun 21, 2008 4:04 pm
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I am sure that I posted some REXX code to exactly that, once again for a previously discussed topic.
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