"BTW: Your case seem ridiculous (tenths of hour? Every job accounted?), but - this is more important - it has nothing to do with the problem."
Yes. Chargebacks for mainframe time, and accounting when LPARs are leased to 3rd party customers. When I was a customer of a mainframe service provider, we paid $8,000 per CPU hour which was a very competitive rate for a 2 processor LPAR. So, you bet. A tenth of an hour was $800. BTW, lawyers bill their clients in tenths of an hour. At $1000/hr for a partner, 6 minutes is $100. And, the systems that lawyers use, have client matter codes for billing. They are required to for the court. Joe On Wed, Nov 11, 2020 at 4:39 PM R.S. <[email protected]> wrote: > W dniu 05.11.2020 o 20:01, retired mainframer pisze: > >> -----Original Message----- > >> From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List <[email protected]> On > >> Behalf Of R.S. > >> Sent: Thursday, November 05, 2020 4:20 AM > >> To: [email protected] > >> Subject: Re: JES2 Policies > >> > >> Joe, > >> > >> And I'm pretty sure no business department is interested in ACCNT field > >> and its content. Believe me or not: IT is a tool to achieve business > >> goal, but the details, guts, fields, commas are NOT in the scope of > >> business focus. They want working application, it is up to IT how to do > >> it. Changing ACCNT or classes are not strategic. > >> BTW: Gadi's further explanation sched more light on that. > >> That's why I proposed solution for real need. Not just abstract > >> excercise to solve. > >> > >> -- > >> Radoslaw Skorupka > >> Lodz, Poland > > Why would you think that? When I was working, our office had several > different contracts active simultaneously. Many were "cost plus" rather > than "fixed fee." It was not unusual to spend a portion of each day on > different ones. We were required to daily document our time on each to the > nearest tenth of an hour. Similarly, when we logged on to TSO or submitted > a batch job, we were required to specify the account field that > corresponded to that contract. We had an exit (IEFACTRT?) that captured > this along with job statistics, such as CPU time, I/O counts, etc and cut > appropriate SMF records. These formed the basis for billing the > customers. It was also used by management to determine how accurate > initial estimates were and then refine our process for estimating future > bids. > > Why do I think that? This is my experience. I saw and *solved* many > scenarios where weird (OK, unusual) requirements were NOT business need, > but were derivative of those. Yes, I sustain - business dept has no > interest in ACCNT field, TRK vs CYL vs AVG and many other technical > things. BTW: I also saw other scenarios but I have *never* saw > reasonable explanation for them. Of course this is only my limited 25+ > yo experience. I would be happy to learn such cases. > > BTW: Your case seem ridiculous (tenths of hour? Every job accounted?), > but - this is more important - it has nothing to do with the problem. > Please, read Gadi's further explanations. In this case the only purpose > (*) of ACCNT field is to manage job class and service class assignment. > (*) > (Fine print: this is the only purpose we know. However why to suspect > there are other hidden purposes? How to satisfy them? 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