I have been asked to get confirmation from IBM regard TSM about the last
access date on a file. We are in the process of implementing SRM which looks
at a number of attributes on files including the last access date to give a
report of stale and redundant data. We need TSM to be able to back up files
without modifying the last access date to enable SRM to function correctly.
Can anybody confirm whether TSM modifies the last access date even when
running the compare stage of the backup?

Thanks for your help.


Neil Sharp
Merrill Lynch ADSM/TSM Administrator
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