Space announcement This documentation space provides the same content as before, but the organization of the content has changed. The content is now organized based on logical branches instead of legacy book titles. We hope that the new structure will help you quickly find the content that you need.

Using the Xchange Journal

Each time Xchange substitutes a simulated date or time for a request from your application or program, it creates an entry in the Xchange journal data set. This data set provides documentation of all time and date simulations for the jobs, steps, procedure steps, transactions, and programs that were specified for Xchange.

Important

Some Xchange journal entries may be in GMT format. Xchange returns date and time in GMT format for Db2, LE, and Xchange’s STCK, STCKE, and STCKF facilities.


There are several ways to look at the contents of the journal data set:

  • Online Journal Facility
  • Activity Report
  • Journal Extract
  • Journal Dump Report.


Before discussing each of these options for viewing the journal, this section describes how to close or swap the journal data set.

This section contains the following topics:

 

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