Re: Journalling All Files

The thing about looking at the journal receivers itself instead of data
gleaned from them is that the journal receivers pretty much defy tampering
with them. You delete a journal receiver and it logs it to another
receiver. With the usual who, what, when, where.

Use a tool and whose to say the tool doesn't have logic to omit any UPDDTA
against the direct deposit file from programmerb?

Would your tool display the "journal turned off" and "journal turned on"
messages that programmerb did to hide changes made?

Don't get me wrong - tools can really pretty up something to take to
management. But learn the bits and bytes of journalling.

You can manage your receivers and save them off to tape and purge them
when necessary. Actually we keep them for 77 days to get two full month
ends. Huge amounts of data but it's used - a lot.

Would typical audit logs be as acceptable in a true audit as receivers
are? I doubt it. For instance, my item master maintenance report prints
off add, changes and deletions. Or records them in a file. Big whoopie.
Bet it doesn't catch other updates against the file.

Rob Berendt