To reuse a file group that has been swapped and stays in standby status because of becoming full or operation command execution, the file group must be in unload completion status.

When N is specified in jnl_unload_check (facility for inhibiting unload check on journal) in the system journal service definition, the file group is swapped without checking its status.

The following figure shows status changes of an online archive journal file.

Figure 7-1 Status changes of online archive journal file

When you use the global archive journal in the following cases, the file status of the last file group may not become "archived" even though all of the journals are already archived:

• jnl_arc_terminate_check=N is specified in the system journal service definition.
• A value other than 0 is specified for jnl_arc_terminate_timeout in the journal service definition and the archive service is canceled during processing due to a timeout (message KFCA04148-W is output at the cancellation with reason code 2008).

To change the status of the file to archived, use the jnlchgfg command.