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Considerations

The following are considerations for journal record processing:

• If you want to capture information about retrieval only transactions, you must specify JOURNAL RETRIEVAL. While this will allow you to see what programs were used for retrieval activity, you will not be able to see what records were viewed.
• If you want to capture information from local batch jobs, you must capture the journal records (many sites take a backup of their database for recovery purposes when running a local mode update job rather than writing the local mode journal file.)
• Many web-based applications capture the user ID on the client side of the application and use a generic user ID to access the data from the database. In these cases, the actual user ID as captured on the client side can be captured and reported if a product like SiteMinder is used on the client side to make the actual user ID available to the backend system for recording in the BGIN journal checkpoint record.