Different places adopt different philosophies. Having been the MVS chargeback administrator in the past, I can say that no method is perfect. My suggestion is to familiarize yourself with the research of those who have gone down this road before. A good place to start would be the Web site of the IT Financial Management Association http://www.itfma.com/. It would pay to own a copy of Chargeback and IT Cost Accounting, by Terry Quinlan, available at http://www.itfma.com/displaycommon.cfm?an=1&subarticlenbr=10.
db -----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Bri P Sent: Wednesday, June 04, 2008 6:48 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Chargeback reporting Hi all I want to send senior management a chargeback report each month - not actually to chargeback but to illustrate in pounds and pence what we're doing on the mainframe. Partly I hope to show that, overall, we're cost-effective per business transaction compared to some of the other processing platforms, etc.. and also to show the development people on a job-by-job basis what their "big hitters" are and identify targets for efficiency improvements etc (we're toying with the idea of signing up for sub-capacity licensing). Presumably I should use SMF type 30 records as a basis for this (rather than RMF records?) Would you use the values for CPU seconds, or those for service units? Regardless of which, do you take the totals of these, or just the CPU, SRB, etc? In arriving at a cost per CPU second or per Service Unit, What sort of financial "inputs" do people typically use? Our z9 was only purchased just over a year ago, so I assume the capital cost of that, written down over a period of years, should factor, plus the annual software costs and initial purchase prices, but also people costs..?? What about disk/storage usage, do you factor those in too? Sorry, probably a big topic, I know. If anyone's got any pointers to manuals or documentation on this sort of thing, I'd also appreciate it. Cheers! Brian ----------------------------------------- Email sent from www.virginmedia.com/email Virus-checked using McAfee(R) Software and scanned for spam ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
