Re: Journal management

Like many things it depends on the requirements.I personally keep at least 4 month online for auditing and debugging purposes (for eventual EXPJRNE usage).I've a dead simple daily scheduled RPG that lists the receivers and automatically copy them to a dedicated tape when in detached state tracking all the info in a dedicated file for reference.

ciao



On Friday, February 13, 2026 at 04:51:30 PM GMT+1, DEnglander--- via MIDRANGE-L <midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Does anyone know of any resources or Best Practice guidelines regarding
how long to keep journal objects on the disk? We have journals that are
taking up quite alot of disk space, and I am wondering how long they
normally need to be kept online. At least weekly there are messages in
QSYSOPR indicating a journal has been detached and should be saved.
However, once the journal is saved to tape, how long is it necessary to
keep it on disk?

Thank you,

Doug



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