Re: System Audit journal question

Evan Harris <[email protected]> Thu, 16 Jul 2026 11:12:41 +1200
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In my reading, "Journaling to the system journal" would have been better
expressed as "instead of using the audit journal to track opens and closes,
use a user journal"

That said, I wouldn't expect that the audit journal has any influence over
commitment control operations so the comment about two journals would not
apply.

On Thu, Jul 16, 2026 at 10:34 AM x y <[email protected]> wrote:

> The only issue with multiple journals is commitment control won't work
> across journals (unless IBM has changed something).  But if that's not a
> requirement, Bob's your uncle.  Rob, actually.
>
> On Wed, Jul 15, 2026 at 6:37 AM Rob Berendt <[email protected]>
> wrote:
>
> > Instead of journalling to the system audit journal, use a journal
> dedicated
> > to this particular set of stream files.  Then it becomes quite easy to
> > purge off historical data without losing unrelated journal entries.
> >
> > On Tue, Jul 14, 2026 at 9:37 AM DEnglander--- via MIDRANGE-L <
> > [email protected]> wrote:
> >
> > > I am looking to track all READ and OPEN operations on selective IFS
> > > folders.
> > >
> > > Is there a way to remove this information from the System Audit Journal
> > > once it is extracted, so the Audit Journal doesn't balloon in size?
> > >
> > > Thank you,
> > >
> > > Doug
> > >
> > >
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