whats the temp, translog or the wstemp log in websphere

- temp: Temporary storage used during operations like ear file deployment and unzip operations, where files can be unpackaged and repackaged during admin operations. 'temp' was actually referring to the <profile>/config/temp directory,
The contents of temp can be deleted while WebSphere is not running.
- tranlog: Logging of application transaction state for rollback purposes (especially for operations like two-phase commit). These logs are inspected during initial startup of an application server to see if any uncommitted in-flight transactions were in process but incomplete, due to something like an unexpected core dump. During startup, WebSphere will try to roll back such transactions. If the appserver is failing to start because of rollback failures, you may have to delete these logs (only the ones for that appserver!)
- wstemp: This is workspace temp storage for admin operations (such as configuration changes made on the admin console) where a user's configuration changes are stored before saving them to the master configuration. You'll notice a directory for each user (including wsadmin for example) under wstemp. The contents of wstemp can be deleted while WebSphere is not running.