The primary benefit of journal management is that it enables you to recover the changes to an object that have occurred since the object was last saved. This ability is especially useful if you have an unscheduled outage such as a power failure.
In addition to powerful recovery functions, journal management also has the following benefits:
- Journal management enhances system security. You can create an audit trail of activity that occurs for objects.
- Journal management allows you to generate user defined journal entries to record activity, even for objects that do not allow journaling.
- Journal management provides quicker recovery of access paths if your system ends abnormally.
- Journal management provides quicker recovery when restoring from save-while-active media.
- Journal management provides the means to recover an object that was saved with partial transactions.
Save your server while it is active has instructions
for saving an object with partial transactions. See the example below for
instructions about recovering objects with partial transactions.