About this task
Several methods are available for retrieving records from the Electronic
Journal. The returned records can be unformatted by sending the unformat(Hashtable
aDataHashtable, Context aContext) message to the format object, which updates
the data elements specified in the format definition within the operation
context. The Journal service allows the application to do the following:
Results
These methods return, by default, all the columns defined in the database
table for the retrieved records. An additional argument can be passed to all
the methods to specify which columns are to be retrieved.