Working with IBM-supplied journals
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 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.
Parent topic:
Managing journalsRelated concepts
Manual versus system journal-receiver managementRelated tasks
Swapping journal receivers