The following shows journal information (AJ, CJ, GJ, IJ, MJ, and OJ) collected by the message control facility on the unloaded-journals file. Also provided are the conditions for collecting journals by the message control facility and the calculation formulae of the necessary amount of journal.

The following table shows the symbols indicating the attribute used in the MCF journal record format.

Table D-1 Attribute symbols

Attribute symbols	Meaning
char	One-byte area with character attribute
uchar	One-byte area with unsigned attribute
char[*]	Character attribute area. Nothing specified for * indicates a variable length. Decimal specified for * indicates a number of bytes. To reference this area, use the character string operation with the number of characters specified.
ulong	Four-byte area with unsigned numeric attribute

Organization of this section

D.1 AJ record format

D.2 GJ record format

D.3 IJ record format

D.4 MJ record format

D.5 OJ record format

D.6 Conditions for collecting journals by the message control facility

D.7 Calculation formula of the necessary amount of journal collected by the message control facility