Working with journal entry information

This topic provides ways that you can display, retrieve, and receive journal entries.

Every journal entry is stored internally in a compressed format and must be converted by the operating system to an external form before it can be shown to the user. You cannot change or access the journal entries directly. Not even the security officer can remove or change journal entries in a journal receiver.

You can use these journal entries to help you recover your objects or analyze changes that were made to the objects.

Following are the various ways that you can retrieve, display, and print journal entry information: