Starting date and time

The system will use the FROMTIME parameter to determine if a file is eligible for copying based on its creation or modification date.

All files that were created, changed, or whose attributes have changed, on or after the starting date and time are eligible for copying. You can determine when a file was last created or changed by specifying DATA(*FILATR) on the Display Optical (DSPOPT) CL command. The default values: *BEGIN for Starting date and *AVAIL for Starting time indicates that all files meet the starting date and time requirement. Specifying a starting date and time identifies only files that were created or changed since that date and time as eligible for copying.

You can use this parameter to greatly limit the number of files that require processing by CPYOPT. This decreases the time that is required to process the files. You could combine this parameter and the SLTFILE parameter to limit the number of files that need to be checked before copying. You could select only files that were *CHANGED or *NEW after a specified starting date and

• Examples: CPYOPT command
  Below are two scenarios using the CPYOPT command: Copy all files from the source volume and copy all files form the source volume since the last copy request.