Unloading and loading journal records
The CICSĀ® Configuration Manager journal is a VSAM key-sequenced data set (KSDS) that contains a record of CICS Configuration Manager commands that have been performed, including all changes that CICS Configuration Manager has made to resource definitions. To limit the size of the journal, consider periodically unloading its records to another data set.
To unload journal records to a QSAM data set, optionally delete them from the journal, and then later, if required, load them back into the journal, use the batch housekeeping program CCVBHKP. This program allows you to select which records to unload or load according to the following criteria:
- Journal record creation date and time
- API command that caused the journal record to be created
- Location of the changed resource definition (CICS configuration name, context name, or CSD file name)
Figure 1. The batch housekeeping program
unloads records from or loads records to the journal
