Journals still full after abend

Products

• IDMS

Issue/Introduction

A program was looping and not issuing COMMITs. It was cancelled and it rolled out, but the journals are still about 80% full. How to free up the space in the journals?

Environment

Release: All supported releases.

Resolution

What happens is that the long running job rolled out. The images for a finished or recovered transaction remain on the disk journals until the next Archive Journal is run. During the condense phase of the Archive, IDMS determines which transactions have completed, or recovered, and removes those transactions from the disk journal file, since they are no longer needed for automatic recovery. So, until the next Archive Journal is run, those images will still be on the disk journal. Once the Archive Journals is run after that, the condense phase of the Archive Journal utility will remove the images automatic recovery no longer needs, and will free up that space in the disk journal.