Re: QSYS2.DISPLAY_JOURNAL_ENTRY_INFO questions

[Bryan Dietz <bdietz400@xxxxxxxxx>]

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Matt Olson wrote on 8/29/2014 1:46 PM:
> All,
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> I am unable to find any information on QSYS2.DISPLAY_JOURNAL_ENTRY_INFO.
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> Anyone know where the magic place is for the documentation on it.  I found all the input parameters, but no documentation on option types, but playing around yielded what they mean except for option type 2.
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> Option type 2 however is what I want to see the most as it appears that will display jornal information in a legible way instead of all the data squished together and/or hieroglyphs if a SQL table.
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> Here is what I've tried so far:
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> CALL qsys2.display_journal_entry_info(2,'libraryname','journal_name', 83325238,'libraryname_of_journal_receiver', 'journal_receiver_name','R')
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> 'R' is the type code, and 2 is the magical undocumented number.  83325238 is a journal entry number.
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> According to wireshark this is what will yield readable data to iSeries navigator in order to make a journal record table formatted (aka readable by humans).