Change Last Used Date of object

[Imerio Martinelli]

Hello, Gentlemen, is it possible through some tools to update the last use date of the objects?, I would need to be able to clean the unused objects, thank you very much

[JonBoy]

I'm confused. Why do you want a tool to do this? The system already does it as and when an object is used.

[Imerio Martinelli]

I need to restore the last used date that I saved, the system resets it every time I recompile an object.

[JonBoy]

I would have thought that was the point. The current version of a program cannot possibly have been used prior to being created.

[JonBoy]

This article from 2013 offers a way to do it - BUT - there have been security changes since that time which may render the option unavailable.

https://www.mcpressonline.com/programming/rpg/change-the-last-used-date-of-an-ibm-i-system-object-arbitrarily

[Imerio Martinelli]

Thank you very much, unfortunately it no longer works with the new version of the Iseries ...

[Scott M]

If you are looking to cleanup unused items then use a combination of created data and last used date - they both must be older than your cutoff date. Then newly created items won't get cleaned up.

[Imerio Martinelli]

Thanks, I had thought of doing so, but if possible I also wanted to keep updated the last used data on the object, however not determined for cleaning