Paul Taffel answers ...

>So, you really want to know about the state-change timestamp?
>
<snip>
>I've appended a section from the paper that describes the
>state-change field. The only thing not answered is the meaning
>of '*ZERO' in the output of the %LISTF ,-3 command.  It's used
>to indicate that the State-Change timestamp is
>uninitialized (which gets reported as THU, JAN  1, 1970, 12:00).
>
<State-Change Timestamp article snipped>

Thank you Paul, but how does not having the state-change timestamp
initialized cause an mpe fopen security violation for all but AM or
greater users? The only work around I've found is to release the files
concerned, something my grandmother always told me was a bad idea :-)

John "still wondering" Pickering
JWP Systems Inc.
Toronto