To: Bryan
Fr: Ray Bassett
Re: Journaling
A couple of caveats with doing journaling within Mapics...there are one (or two) "new" data areas that you WILL become familiar with.
Turning on journaling within MAPICS will inhibit you from getting a "dedicated system", unless, you turn it off.
So, there are some operational procedures that will need to be added.
I have never actually used it in a production environment. I have always felt that it is better to control ALL aspects of Journaling myself........(just my opinion).
Storage: Your disk will get "Eaten Alive" if you do not monitor the journals and their respective receivers properly!
My Suggestion: One Journal/One receiver per PF. Collect data on a weekly basis. Back off "this week's" Journal/Receiver, and create a new one for next week, then the next week, etc, etc.
Although it takes a little work.....The peace of mind that you have is "priceless" !!!
Good Luck!
Raymond Bassett
President
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from: "Burns, Bryan" <Bryan_Burns@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
subject: [MAPICS-L] Journaling
Do you journal MAPICS files? I'm wondering if we're remiss in not doing so.
According to documentation, "For XAR5.5 or higher, you can journal a XA file using XA. To do so, DFU the JRNFIL file adding a record for the file to be journaled. File JRNFIL contains a list of the files that XA journals. When you do your next XA backup, journaling will be ended and restarted using the list of files in JRNFIL."
We'd certainly like visibility to file changes at the field level and journaling as described above sounds really simple. Is the only drawback disk usage?
Thanks in advance,
Bryan Burns
ECHO Outdoor Power Equipment
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