Creation information for objects

Information about the creator of an object and the system on which it is created is saved in the object description when an object is created.

This information is useful for object management and maintenance.

• Creator of the object
  • The creator of the object is the user profile that is performing the create operation. This is true even if the user profile has a group profile and the group profile owns the object.
  • The creator of the object does not change when the ownership changes.
  • The creator is the creator of the object on the media when an object is restored.
  • The creator of the object is the user running the command when an object is duplicated using the Create Duplicate Object (CRTDUPOBJ) command.
  • The creator is *IBM for IBM-supplied objects.
  • The creator of the object is blank for user objects that already existed on the system before Version 1 Release 3.0.
• System on which the object is created
  • When an object is restored, the system on which the object will be created is the system that the object on the media was originally created on.
  • For IBM-supplied objects, the system created-on field is 00000000.
  • For objects that already existed on the system before Version 1 Release 3.0, the system created-on field is blank.