Re: I'm looking at the files being journaled . . . .

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Journaling LF's may save time when recovering after an
abnormal termination.  As if V6R1, LF's views, and indexes are journalled
automatically.

One forgotten benefit of LF's and SQL indexes is that they persist across
IMPL's while MTI's don't.

Why My Logical File is Journaled
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On Thu, Feb 6, 2025 at 2:08 PM James H. H. Lampert via MIDRANGE-L <
midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> I'm looking at the files being journaled, in one particular journal, on
> a customer box. And I'm seeing some things that have me scratching my head.
>
> This particular journal is tied to 7222 members in 2092 files. And a
> good many of these files are logicals of physical files that are
> themselves journaled.
>
> What is the point of journaling logicals, when the based-on physical is
> itself journaled? Wouldn't that result in an awful lot of redundant
> entries?
>
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