Expert: Pete Mayhew - 11/2/2009

Question
QUESTION: I have restored objects(Journal Receivers) from a expired tape (in WRKMEDBRM it is shown as expired). After restoration, I can see the size of the data but no data in it.
How should I proceed with this?

ANSWER: The expired status in BRMS should not affect the data on the tape, it only means the tape can be overwritten.  Journals and journal receivers can be tricky.  I'm assuming that you restored the journal receivers in order to recover some lost data? Can you give me a little more information about the circumstances? I also don't believe that you can look at the data in a journal receiver the same way as you can in a physical file.

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QUESTION: When I enter below command, the reply is "No entires" for almost all Journals Receivers even for the ones which are active
DSPJRN JRN(ABC1DBSD/ABC1JRN) FILE((ABC1DBSD/UUAQREP))  
      RCVRNG(ABC1RCVD/ABC1RC2629 ABC1RCVD/ABC1RC2629)
No entries converted or received from journal ABC1JRN.
We are sure that there are entries available.

Answer
I was out of town on business for a couple days. I don't work with journaling that much, but do have it running on a couple libraries on my 'test' system. Let me try your command (obviously on different files) and see what I come up with.

By the way, what OS version and PTF level are you on?

Update 11/10/09:
I tried DSPJRN on my V5R4 system with active journals and received the same message. As I said, I am not that knowledgable in the details of journaling. Have you tried researching on IBM's Support website? http://www-947.ibm.com/systems/support/i/databases/index.html  I found a document # 10955647 which talks about data in a journal. It is not laid out like the original physical file, so there is some work needed to 'see' the data.
Hope this helps.
Pete