Re: I need your vote on this...

["Jeffrey M. Silberberg" <silbrbrg@xxxxxxxxxx>]

  Bob, 

        I vote NO, the local journal should maintain the names of the 
components on that system that impacted that database.  However, is there
not a way to Journal the object on the source machine to show what what 
happened there ?  Maybe this is what you need to request, as I have not 
looked at OPTI-Connect software I am not sure but from an APPC view I 
would always want my target program that is doing the processing to the 
object to be the entry on the Journal Receiver.

        JMS 

On Fri, 21 Aug 1998, Bob Larkin wrote:

> This question concerns Opti-Connect, but your opinion would be
> appreciated, even if you are not using it.
> 
> Opticonnect is the mechanism one of my clients uses to cluster several
> AS/400s. Data resides on machine A. Programs, Display Files, other small
> objects on Machine B, Machine C Mirrors data from A, and is used as a
> query machine.
> 
> Here is the baackground on the question. A program on Machine A
> writes/updates/deletes a record on Machine B. This is done thru
> Opti-Connect using it's smoke and mirrors. Later, we look in the
> journals on Machine B, and find the record we just
> wrote/updated/deleted. When we look to see which program did the file
> I/O, we get the name of the IBM program that wrote the record for
> OptiConnect, not the name of our application program.
> 
> My question......
>   Should the Journal contain my applications name, or the IBM programs
> name?
> 
> We use these journals for diagnostics, among other things. Since we have
> files being updated by multiple applications, on multiple machines,
> seeing the Application Program's name, instead of the IBM program, would
> be helpful.
> 
> Any opinions?
> 
> TIA,
> Bob
> blarkin@wt.net
>
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