CPF4328: Member not journaled to journal

What it means

CPF4328 is an escape message sent at open time. The text names the member and the journal. When the member isn't journaled at all, the journal name shows as *N, for example "Member ORDHDR not journaled to journal *N."

Commitment control lets a program group several database changes and then commit them together or roll them back. To roll back, the system reads the before images of the changed records from a journal. So every file that a program opens under commitment control must be journaled. If it isn't, the open fails with CPF4328, one of the open failures in the CPF4101 to CPF43FF range.

IBM lists CPF4328 with CPF4293, CPF4326, CPF4327 and CPF4329 as the messages for an open that couldn't put the file under commitment control. In ILE COBOL they all return file status 9P. In ILE RPG the open error comes back as file status 01216 or 01217 and the default handler sends RNQ1216.

Common causes

• An RPG program has the COMMIT keyword on the file, commitment control is active in the job, and the file was never journaled. This is common on files created outside an SQL schema, which aren't journaled automatically.
• The file was journaled on one system but not on another, for example after it was re-created or restored into a test library without journaling.
• Journaling was ended on the file with ENDJRNPF, for example during a reload, and never started again.
• Another program in the job started commitment control with STRCMTCTL, so a program that normally runs without it now opens its files under commitment control.

How to find the problem

1. Run DSPJOBLOG and press F1 on CPF4328 to see the member and journal. A journal name of *N means the member isn't journaled at all.
2. Run DSPFD FILE(ACCTLIB/ORDHDR) TYPE(*ATR) on the physical file and look at the journaling information to see whether it is journaled and to which journal.
3. Check whether commitment control is active in the job, and who started it. WRKCMTDFN lists the commitment definitions for active jobs.
4. In the program source, look for the COMMIT keyword on the file (RPG) or a COMMITMENT CONTROL clause (COBOL).

How to fix it

• Start journaling on the physical file with STRJRNPF FILE(ACCTLIB/ORDHDR) JRN(ACCTLIB/ACCTJRN). If there is no journal yet, create a receiver with CRTJRNRCV and a journal with CRTJRN first. Talk to whoever manages journals and receivers, because receivers use disk space and need a cleanup routine.
• For a logical file, journal the physical files it is built over.
• If the program shouldn't use commitment control, remove the COMMIT keyword or pass it an indicator that is off, or make sure STRCMTCTL isn't run before the program.
• Put journaling back in your build and restore procedures, so a re-created file starts journaling again before programs use it.

What it looks like

Member ORDHDR not journaled to journal *N.
Error message CPF4328 appeared during OPEN for file ORDHDR (C S D F).

DSPMSGD MSGID(CPF4328) MSGF(QSYS/QCPFMSG)

Technical reviewer: Albert Joseph, WND Software.

Last reviewed 2026-10-18 by the WND Software team. Written in our own words. For the full reference, check IBM’s documentation for your IBM i release.