Re: retain the creation date

["Alan Cassidy" <acassidy@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Sender: "Alan Cassidy" <acassidy@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

I don't think that retains the dates on the file. Maybe IBM has changed it
since I heard it, and don't remember checking the dates on the few files
I've had to restore, but it does a new date/time.

The reason, it seems like someone once wrote a program for a client to put
an original create or change date/time on an AS/400 file after a restore.
The way I heard it, IBM got was upset with him because he had to "bypass"
their security options. He got upset back at them, saying, "So give me an
API!".

But that would be surely on the "standard" library-file database.

Don't know why they wouldn't provide that.

I don't know who wrote it. The MIS director here was chairwoman (title?) of
the COMMON security interest group, and that's how she got wind of it.

-- Alan


----- Original Message -----
From: "Scott Klement" <sk@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Friday, July 11, 2003 5:54 PM
Subject: Re: retain the creation date

> Once you know when it was last changed, you'd have to somehow modify the
> file that you just created to give it that new timestamp, which I don't
> know how to do.
>
> This functionality could be addded to FTP_get() if I knew how to do it :)
> But since it's non-standard, it would work with some FTP servers and not
> with others.  (I don't think the iSeries FTP server supports it, but I
> haven't checked since V3R2)
>
> An alternative might be to use an archiving software, like the Unix tar
> program, or a save file on the AS/400.   Make an archive of the file that
> you want to transfer, transfer the archive, and then extract it.   That
> should retain the original dates on the file(s)


-----------------------------------------------------------------------
This is the FTPAPI mailing list.  To unsubsribe from the list send mail
to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with the body: unsubscribe ftpapi mymailaddr
-----------------------------------------------------------------------