The CICS log manager

The CICS® log manager provides facilities for the creation, control, and retrieval of journals during real-time CICS execution. Journals are intended to record, in chronological order, any information that you may later need to reconstruct data or events. For example, you could create journals to act as audit trails; to record database updates, additions, and deletions for backup purposes; or to track transaction activity in the system.

The CICS log manager controls all logging and journaling using services provided by the MVS™ system logger. The CICS log manager supports:

The MVS system logger provides:

Related concepts
Log stream storage
Related tasks
Enabling, disabling, and reading journals
Related reference
Structure and content of CICS Transaction Server for z/OS format journal records
Structure and content of COMPAT41-format journal records
Format of journal records written to SMF
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