CA IDMS Verifying sequence of archive journal

Products

• IDMS
• IDMS - Database
• IDMS - ADS

Issue/Introduction

After restoring a journal archive file to do a ROLLFORWARD, ROLLBACK or Ez-Reorg, getting error:

UT014001 JOURNAL SEQUENCE ERROR

How can the archive journal be verified that the sequence is correct before using it in recovery?

Environment

Release:
Component: IDMS

Resolution

To verify the journal run the IDMSBCF EXTRACT JOURNAL utility which will do the same journal sequence checks as ROLLFORWARD/ROLLBACK.
To check the whole journal use the following command:

EXTRACT JOURNAL FOR DMCL ALL;

 

Additional Information

See DocOps sections EXTRACT JOURNAL and  EXTRACT JOURNAL JCL