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Status Future consideration
Workspace IBM i
Categories Save and Restore
Created by Guest
Created on Jan 17, 2025

RELATED IDEAS

Add CRTPERIOD (similar to CHGPERIOD) on the "SAV" CL Command

When doing large migrations, the number of objects in the IFS could add up to nearly terabytes. We would like to save IFS files based on Creation Date rather than Last Changed Date. The benefit is we can migrate files created before or since a specific date, or if similar to the CHGPERIOD within the user-specified date range. FTP really isn't an option since the "date" attributes on the file are lost when transferring via FTP.

Idea priority Urgent
  • Guest
    Dec 15, 2025

    In the IFS, you can get a list of files sorted by create date as follows:

    XXFILEPATH=$(mktemp /tmp/sortcreateXXXXXX)
    for i in $(find .)
    do
            XX=$(attr $i CREATE_TIME)
            python -c "from datetime import datetime; print(datetime.strptime('$XX', '%a %b %d %H:%M:%S %Y').strftime('%Y-%m-%d-%H-%M-%S'), end=' ')" >>$XXFILEPATH 
            echo $i >>$XXFILEPATH
    done
    sort $XXFILEPATH > sorted_by_create.txt 
    rm $XXFILEPATH
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  • Guest
    May 15, 2025
    IBM will use this Idea as input to planning, but no commitment is made or implied. This Idea will be updated in the future if IBM implements it. IBM will use votes and comments from others in the community to help prioritize this Idea.

    - IBM Power Systems Development
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