Change object attribute

[jigjog]

How do you change object attribute of a library such as 'System created on...'? Some tools found on the web do not seem to include this - any chance?

[satish]

Re: Change object attribute

You cannot change the object creation/change date. it will be stored in IBM system files.

[jigjog]

Re: Change object attribute

Thanks Satish... but I was actually referring to the 'System created on' attribute. If you do a 'wrkobj' and taking option 8, you see something like :

Creation date/time . . . . . . . . : 02/12/03 18:39:27
Created by user . . . . . . . . . : *IBM
System created on . . . . . . . . : 00000000
Object domain . . . . . . . . . . : *USER

I've seen some programs with blank on the 'System created on' instead of the name of the system where object was compiled from (or created)? Any chance it can be changed?

Regards.

[DeadManWalks]

Re: Change object attribute

like satish said, nope.

[tomholden]

Re: Change object attribute

Thanks Satish... but I was actually referring to the 'System created on' attribute. If you do a 'wrkobj' and taking option 8, you see something like :

Creation date/time . . . . . . . . : 02/12/03 18:39:27
Created by user . . . . . . . . . : *IBM
System created on . . . . . . . . : 00000000
Object domain . . . . . . . . . . : *USER

I've seen some programs with blank on the 'System created on' instead of the name of the system where object was compiled from (or created)? Any chance it can be changed?

Regards.

just an FYI any object with a Created by user *IBM should not be tampered with! most of these objects are a part of the base OS (and other IBM packages) tamper with them at your own peril

[jigjog]

Re: Change object attribute

The example I gave was an IBM object - but the ones I saw on our system with blank 'System created on' attributes are actually non-IBM programs. I did not mean to 'tamper' the IBM objects. I was auditing user programs and found some where the said attribute is blank - and got curious how such objects were created!? I guess the bottomline is that I won't get an answer from here.

Thanks guys for the response anyway.

Cheers!

[tomholden]

Re: Change object attribute

The example I gave was an IBM object - but the ones I saw on our system with blank 'System created on' attributes are actually non-IBM programs. I did not mean to 'tamper' the IBM objects. I was auditing user programs and found some where the said attribute is blank - and got curious how such objects were created!? I guess the bottomline is that I won't get an answer from here.

Thanks guys for the response anyway.

Cheers!

unfortunately you got the answer from here...that answer is there IS no way to do this short of recreating the object itself. the closest you could get would be using CHGOBJD or the Change Object Description (QLICOBJD) API...neither will allow the change to the system created on. don't believe us? call IBM

as to why those objects do not have the system created on in the object description means that observability has most likely been removed (most 3rd party vendors do this to protect their investments!)

[tomholden]

Re: Change object attribute

You cannot change the object creation/change date. it will be stored in IBM system files.

FYI...it's not stored in the system files but is embedded into the objects themselves