Batch audit trail processing

The File-AID for IMS Audit Trail feature captures all updates processed against selected user databases through the Edit function into the Audit Trail control database. Specification of the databases whose updates are to be captured is made at your installation by the person or group responsible for File-AID for IMS, not by the individual user. Information about the installation and activation of the Audit Trail feature is contained in the Installing and Configuring.

All the update activity processed against the selected user databases, perhaps by several different users, is contained in a single Audit Trail control database. We recommend that you periodically extract and delete all or a portion of this information from the Audit Trail database. This process enables Audit Trail reports on the user database update activity to be produced and also keeps the Audit Trail database size (that is, the number of segments contained therein) from growing too large.

The update activity stored on the Audit Trail database is extracted from the database by executing the Audit Trail Extract program (XIXATEXT). This information is sorted and then read by the Audit Trail Report program (XIXATRPD), which generates an Audit Trail Report.

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