Daniel.

I agree the operating system changes the access date.

In the same time, I'm convinced you can take control of a file read to not 
update the last accessed date or at least remember the date and put it back 
again after the read.

I guess the TSM developers have the knowledge to fix an archive or backup 
without updating the last accessed date. 

From my point of view as a storage manager, centralised storage management 
routines should never update the file attributes. They shall always reflect the 
customer's/user's accesses.

I would like to see the TSM archive and TSM backup not updating the last 
accessed date on the read files. In fact no infrastructure routine should 
update the attributes. If I like to have a specific process for old files (not 
used for a long time). How can I find them  to, for example,  archive (with 
delete) if there have been some selective backups and/or archive (copy only) 
executed. The files will not age right from the business point of view.

   /Lars   
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