Use this argument to indicate a comma-separated list of journal files to be used in the RECOVER (or ROLLBACK) operation. When you specify asterisk (*) for this argument, GT.M uses the journal files of the database files listed in the Global Directory that UNIX environment variable gtmgbldir points to. Enclose the asterisk (*) in quotes (" ") to prevent shell expansion. Currently, the only value accepted for this argument with -ROLLBACK qualifier is asterisk (*). This prevents incomplete input from being supplied to the -ROLLBACK operation. GT.M reports an error if any other value is supplied for -ROLLBACK.

The value asterisk (*) can be specified for both -FORWARD and -BACKWARD direction qualifiers. However, if a database does not have journaling enabled, MUPIP terminates with a journal file name not found error. -RECOVER accepts a list of journal files.

MUPIP JOURNAL -RECOVER -BACKWARD does not accept multiple generation journal file names. Note that, asterisk (*) cannot be specified with -REDIRECT control qualifier.

Fidelity strongly recommends the use of asterisk (*) argument for the journal file selection argument for -RECOVER and -ROLLBACK.