CA IDMS/DB Journal Reports—JREPORTS › Overview

Overview

When an application program accesses and updates a database, CA IDMS/DB logs backup information to a journal file, which records program activity against the database. The journal file contains:

• A time record that describes when journal records are written
• Checkpoints that describe the status of transactions accessing the database
• Journal record entries that contain the before and after images of database records

The journal file also contains CKPT and USER records; however, these records are not used in journal reports.