Re: Was RE: Journaling - Now how to find who read

Mark, 

check the November issue of AS400 Magazine's Spotlight column when it
comes out....

Don in DC

On Mon, 18 Sep 2000, Mark Allen wrote:

> Since this has come up here and I have been trying to find a "simple" way
> (i.e. like journaling, no program changes) to find out who has "read" a file
> and since Simon brought it up in his reply, does anyone have an idea of how
> to in essence "journal" read op's???
> 
> Mark Allen
> IS Manager
> Kelly's Kids
> markallen@kellyskids.com
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-midrange-l@midrange.com
> [mailto:owner-midrange-l@midrange.com]On Behalf Of Simon Coulter
> Sent: Monday, September 18, 2000 1:05 AM
> To: MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com
> Subject: Re: Journaling
> 
> 
> Œ
> Hello David,
> 
> You wrote:
> >But - Andersen bothered to build in the journaling properly.  Part of this
> >is to open files for input only where possible.  Files opened for update
> >will have all their reads journaled.  So... MACPAC would often open the
> same
> >file multiple times - once for read only operations, once for updates.
> This
> >minimized the impact on the journals.
> 
> While I agree with most of what you wrote, this statement is silly.  READs
> are never
> journalled, what would be the point!  I know some sites want to know who
> read a record
> but journalling isn't the way to accomplish that.  Journalling has no effect
> on reads.
> Even reads though an update ODP.
> 
> Regards,
> Simon Coulter.
> 
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