(FAQ) AS/400 Journal Restrictions

The Create Journal (CRTJRN) command creates a journal as a local journal with the specified attributes, and attaches the specified journal receiver to the journal. Once a journal is created, object changes can be journaled to it or user entries can be sent to it. The journal state of the created journal is *ACTIVE.

Restrictions:
• A journal cannot be created in the library QTEMP.
• The receiver specified must be created before issuing this command and it must be empty (that is, the receiver must not have been previously attached to a journal or have been in the process of being attached to a journal).
• This command cannot be used to create a remote journal. See the ADDRMTJRN (Add Remote Journal) command description or the Add Remote Journal (QjoAddRemoteJournal) API in the System API Reference information in the iSeries Information Center at http://www.ibm.com/eserver/iseries/infocenter.
• If RCVSIZOPT(*MAXOPT1 or *MAXOPT2 or *MAXOPT3) is not to be in effect for the journal, the maximum threshold value that can be specified for any journal receiver being attached is 1,919,999 kilobytes.
• If the library to contain the journal is on an independent ASP then the journal receiver specified must be located on an independent ASP that is in the same ASP group as the journal's library. Likewise, if the library to contain the journal is not on an independent ASP, then the journal receiver specified cannot be located on an independent ASP.
• If the library to contain the journal is on an independent ASP then ASP(*LIBASP) must be specified.
• RCVSIZOPT(*MINFIXLEN) and FIXLENDTA cannot be used for the system security audit journal QSYS/QAUDJRN. Journal entries in the security audit journal are required to contain all possible data that could be used for auditing purposes.