Setting up journaling

This topic provides instructions on how to set up journals and journal receivers.

Setting up journaling consists of creating a journal and a journal receiver. When you create a journal, you need the following information:
  • The name of the journal.
  • The library assignment of the journal.
  • The journal receiver name to associate with the journal.
  • Which disk pool to assign storage space for the journal (only if you are using the ASP parameter in the CRTJRN command).
  • The journal message queue.
  • Whether or not to use manual or system journal-receiver management.
  • Whether or not to have automatic deletion of the journal receiver.
  • The receiver size options for the journal.
  • The journal object limit for the journal.
  • Who has authority to the journal.
  • Whether or not to minimize entry-specific data (character-based interface only).
  • Whether or not to use journal caching (character-based interface only).
  • Whether or not to delay the next attempt to automatically change the journal receiver (character-based interface only).
  • Whether or not to delay the next attempt to automatically delete the journal receiver (character-based interface only).
  • Whether or not to include fixed-length data in the journal entries (character-based interface only).
When you create a journal receiver, you need the following information:
  • The name of the journal receiver
  • The disk pool assignment for journal receiver
  • The storage threshold for the journal receiver
  • Who has authority to the journal receiver

You can choose one of the following methods to set up journaling. For information about the difference between the two methods, see IBM Navigator for i versus the character-based interface for journaling objects.

  • To set up journaling with Navigator for i, follow these steps.
    1. With Navigator for i connect to the system that contains the objects you wish to journal.
    2. Expand Journal Management.
    3. Select Create a journal.
    4. Start journaling for each object that you plan to journal.
  • To set up journaling with the character-based interface, follow these steps.
    1. Create the journal receiver using the Create Journal Receiver (CRTJRNRCV) command.
    2. Create the journal using the Create Journal (CRTJRN) command.
    3. Start journaling for each object that you plan to journal.