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Last Use Date Maintenance

When a data set is restored, CA Disk also restores the creation date and last use date fields to their original values. This default action can be customized as follows:

• Adding the CREATE parameter to the RESTORE command changes the creation date to the current date for the data set being restored.
• Supplying the LUSEDATE sysparm to a restore job changes the last use date to the current date for all data sets being restored by the job.
• Supplying the ARESCRDT sysparm to an auto-restore job changes the creation date to the current date for the data set being restored.

Depending on the criteria used during archive, these parameters can alleviate some concerns for exempting data set from archive. However, the opposite is also true. By changing their original dates, data sets can reside on DASD longer than necessary.