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  This may be a question previously answered on the discussion group but
since I'm new, please be patient and point me to the correct area
for an answer.
  For various reasons I need to be able to reformat the existing USER=
tag on about 4000 to 5000 VSE JCL decks.  This need is driven by a
change to a vendor Job Accounting package that uses this information to
cost account resources to the appropriate accounting area.
  The development staff uses the date field which is shown when FLIST or
Filelist is invoked for the files as a means of monitoring when these jobs
were last updated.  These are COBOL compile decks for all of our native code
applications.  This allows them some sense of security when this date is
cross checked against the date the phase was cataloged into the VSE library.
  I would like to run a VM EXEC against all of these that would reformat the
already existing information in the USER= part of the $$ JOB card to conform
to the vendor package requirements.  My understanding is that if I use an XEDIT
Macro which "files' the JCL after I update a record in that file the date will
change to the current date.  Is there a way around this.  For example, I know
that the COPY command allows you to specify OLDDATE as an option.  Is there a
similar option available in XEDIT??
  Thanks for any information you can give me.

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