Four keywords are used as optional parameters to the SET FILE/BI_ JOURNAL command: ALLOCATION, [NO]CREATE, EXTENSION, and FILE. You can use any, all, or none of these keywords. Use an equal sign (=) immediately after the SET FILE/BI_JOURNAL command to use a keyword. If you use more than one of the keywords, enclose the list in parentheses and separate the items in the list with commas. ALLOCATION=n Specifies the initial size, in blocks, of the journal. The ALLOCATION keyword is meaningful only when the CREATE keyword is also used. The default allocation is 0 blocks. CREATE Specifies that a new journal is to be created. If no journal exists, using this keyword creates a new one. If a journal (with the file specification given in this command) already exists, using this keyword creates a new version of the journal. In the latter instance, the data file named in this SET FILE command is journaled to the new journal. Any other files that are being journaled to the previous version of the journal will continue to be journaled to that previous version. If a journal does not already exist, be sure to use the CREATE keyword with the SET FILE/BI_JOURNAL command. If you do not specify the CREATE keyword and a journal does not exist, a journal is not automatically created and an error message is displayed. When you create a journal for before-image journaling, the file protection for the journal is determined as follows: o If a version of the journal that you specify with the CREATE keyword already exists, then the new version of the journal has the same file protection and access control list (ACL) as the most recent version. o If there is no existing journal (that is, if you are creating version 1 of the journal), then the file protection and ACL of the journal are the default file protection for the process that creates the journal, except that none of the four ownership categories (system, owner, group, world) is given delete access. If you want to use a single journal for both after-image and before-image journaling, do not use the CREATE keyword with both the /AI_JOURNAL and /BI_JOURNAL qualifiers, because that will create two separate journals. When you create a journal that will be used for more than one data file or more than one type of journaling (after-image or before-image), you should first use a SET FILE command to create the journal for a single type of journaling and for a single data file. After the journal is created, then you can use a single SET FILE command for multiple data files and both after-image and before-image journaling. For example, you might use the following sequence of commands: $ SET FILE/AI_JOURNAL=(FILE=JNL_DISK:,CREATE) [WEEKLY]SALES.DAT $ SET FILE/BI_JOURNAL=(FILE=JNL_DISK:[WEEKLY]SALES) - _$INVOICES.DAT,COMMISSIONS.DAT EXTENSION=n Specifies the default extension quantity, in blocks, for the journal. You can specify a value from 0 to 65,535. The EXTENSION keyword is meaningful only when you use the CREATE keyword. If the file is extended, the value that you specify is used. If you do not use the EXTENSION keyword when you create a journal, RMS calculates its own EXTENSION value for the journal. FILE=journal-filespec Specifies the journal where all before-image journal entries for the data file will be recorded. The default file specification for the journal is the file specification of the data file that you name, but with a file type of RMS$JOURNAL. Use the FILE keyword if you wish to modify this default file specification for the journal. If you provide a partial file specification for the before-image journal, any unspecified portions are taken from the default file specification. The file specification cannot include a node name, since the SET FILE command is not valid for network access. The FILE keyword is optional with the SET FILE/BI_JOURNAL command. You can use a single journal for multiple data files for before- image journaling, and you can also use the same journal for both before-image and after-image journaling.