The operating system and some licensed programs use journals to provide audit trails and assist with recovery.
The following table lists some of the IBM™-supplied journals:
Journal name | Library name | Description |
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QACGJRN | QSYS | Keeps job accounting information. Job Accounting in the Work Management topic describes the use of this optional journal. |
QAOSDIAJRN | QUSRSYS | Provides recovery for the document library files and the distribution files. Used by Integrated xSeries® Server. |
QASOSCFG | QUSRSYS | The journal for the QASOSCFG physical file. The QASOSCFG file stores secure client SOCKets Secure (SOCKS) configuration data. The Client SOCKS support topic provides more information about SOCKS. |
QAUDJRN | QSYS | Keeps an audit record of security-relevant activity on the system. iSeries™ Security Reference describes this optional journal. |
QCQJMJRN | QUSRSYS | Provides an audit trail for Managed System Services. |
QDSNX | QUSRSYS | Provides an audit trail for DSNX activity. |
QIPFILTER | QUSRSYS | Provides information for troubleshooting and auditing IP filter rules. See the IP filtering and network address translation topic for more information about IP filtering rules. |
QIPNAT | QUSRSYS | Provides information for troubleshooting and auditing network address translation (NAT). See the IP filtering and network address translation topic for more information about NAT. |
QLYJRN | QUSRSYS | Keeps a log of transactions made to the Application Development Manager datastore files. |
QLYPRJLOG | QUSRSYS | Keeps the project logs for the Application Development Manager licensed program. Used by the system if recovery is necessary. |
QLZALOG | QUSRSYS | Used by the licensed management program to log requests that exceed the usage limit of a license. |
QPFRADJ | QSYS | Keeps a log of dynamic performance tuning information. Job Accounting in the Work Management topic describes using this optional journal. |
QSNADS | QUSRSYS | Provides an audit trail for SNADS activity. |
QSZAIR | QUSRSYS | A journal for Storage Management Services (SMS) |
QSNMP | QUSRSYS | Provides an audit trail for network management information. Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP) describes using this journal. |
QSXJRN | QUSRSYS | Provides a log of the activity that occurs in the database files for service-related activity. Keep the information in this journal for 30 days. |
QTOVDBJRN | QUSRSYS | A journal for virtual private networking (VPN). |
QVPN0001 | QUSRSYS | Provides an audit trail for Virtual Private Networking (VPN) connections. TCP/IP Configuration and Reference describes this journal. |
QYPSDBJRN | QUSRSYS | A journal for the systems management platform |
QZCAJRN | QUSRSYS | Contains a record for each SNMP PDU in and out of the SNMP agent, by PDU type (SNMP GET, SNMP GETNEXT, SNMP SET, SNMP TRAP). TCP/IP Configuration and Reference provides more information about this journal. |
QZMF | QUSRSYS | Provides an audit trail for the mail server framework. AnyMail/400 Mail Server Framework Support provides more information about this journal. |
If you are using licensed programs or system functions that require these journals, consult the documentation for those functions for instructions on how to manage the journals and journal receivers.
In general, you swap journal receivers to detach the journal receiver and create and attach a new receiver on a regular basis. You may need to save detached receivers before deleting them, or you may be able to delete them without saving them. This depends on how the journal receivers are being used and whether the journal is using system journal-receiver management.
In some cases, you can use the automatic cleanup function of Operational Assistant to remove detached journal receivers that are no longer needed.