Have you always wondered how journaling works and how best to employ this function? Would you like to hear where it's heading in the future? This session provides an introduction to iSeries journaling and its functions.

This provides a good introduction for those who want to attend more in-depth journal sessions later in the week which are part of the Focused Education Roadmap associated with journaling.

We'll introduce you to the objects, talk about Hot Site practices, show you how Journaling can affect your back-up strategy, show you how it can be a useful debugging aid, illustrate the role it plays as "better plumbing" in a High Availability scheme, introduce many of the commands, suggest some optimal hardware choices that tend to be journal-friendly, and finish off with some performance tuning suggestions.

In this session, learn:
1. When and where to use journal functions.
2. The benefits you can expect.
3. What's new.
4. Some of the major factors which affect performance.
5. How to make your applications more journal friendly.