Journal

Click EXPORT to export the journal entries to a text file. The text file will be called journal.txt and will be saved to C:\ProgramData\Micro Focus\<product name> (assuming your %SYSTEMDRIVE% is C:) (Windows), or /var/mfcobol/logs (UNIX). You might do this to load the journal file into a text editor to search for events involving specific objects or to annotate entries. If journal.txt already exists, it will be overwritten.

Click SHOW ALL to display all entries in a single list.

Click DELETE to delete this journal and start a new one. You might want to do this if you are debugging a problem with a service and you want a well-defined journal starting-point.

Click VIEW to apply the changes made to the Page and entries fields.

ENTRY ID

Displays the entry number of the journal record. When the journal file is restarted or deleted, the entry number is reset back to 1, and is sequentially incremented for each following journal entry.

TIMESTAMP

Displays the local date and time that the journal record was written to the journal file.

SOURCE

Displays the unique identifier string associated with a particular session.

PROCESS ID

Displays the process ID of the journal entry.

THREAD ID

Displays the thread ID of the journal entry.

MESSAGE ID

Displays the message ID of the journal entry.

MESSAGE TYPE

Message types are:

I

Information

W

Warning

E

Error

S

Severe

MESSAGE

This is the message text in the journal entry.

Some messages are colorized, warning messages are yellow and are denoted with an exclamation point in a triangle icon. Error messages are red and are denoted with a lightning icon.