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Thank you for submitting this request. We understand this request. The access time is set when the objects are accessed. There are other timestamps that may be more important for determining if an object is changed. The modify time and change time actually indicate if any updates are made.
The development team will be investigating this request.
If you are referring to the module being compiled you can certainly argue that updating the access time may be useful, however the number of accesses to headers swamps the access of the individual modules.
However, the only times we are really concerned with are creation and update times, as they directly affect make processes, the access time is not really that important as it has no effect on the build or backups.
I would agree to not updating the access timestamp if you're just looking for the objects in the IFS however during a compile you are accessing an object so it makes sense to update that timestamp.