And for those situations where the ACCOUNT MODULE doesn't do what is needed, one can always use the CMS Pipelines ACNTDIFF, ACNTTALLY, and ACNTXPAND stages to process disk accounting data. The SPECS stage could could also be employed to tally and compute values from the accounting fields in the accounting records.
The ACNTxxx stages are documented in the 'pipeline news1111' file, found on the CMS Pipelines web page: http://vm.marist.edu/~pipeline DJ ----- Original Message ----- From: Kris Buelens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [email protected] Subject: Re: Fw: Disk Accounting Records Date: Wed, 1 Oct 2008 11:48:06 -0400 > It all started with IPF, the "thing" that was added in the > VM/SP days, where you could order a naked VM, or a VM SIPO > (System Installation Productivity Option ?), that had IPF > as prereq, and you got quite some pre-installed stuff. > Remember VMUTIL,DISKACNT, & friends these servers ware new > than, WAKEUP was the heart of VMUTIL, and ACCOUNT was used > by DISKACNT. Other tools where born then too: DIRMAP, > SADT, DEVTYPE, FLIST, BROWSE, all part of IPF. > With IPF came also panels, this section of IPF became a > bit later ISPF. The IPF panels gave VM a look like TSO > has now, one could indeed enter things like 1.2.3 to end > up in e.g. FLIST, or x.y.z to XEDIT something... VM's > command base is too easy, and customers didn't use these > IPF panels. I guess that with VM/ESA IPF died, no more > panels, but also no more a pre-installed > VMUTIL/DISKACNT/SYSWATCH/.... The modules became CUF (CMS > Utilities Feature), a billabe VM/ESA feature. Later the > CUF stuff became part of the VM base, I guess with the > arrival of z/VM, an incompatible change: CUF got installed > on the Y-disk; in z/VM some landed on the S-disk, others > on MAINT 193. > > 2008/10/1 Tom Duerbusch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > It use to be part of the chargable product: CMS > > Utilities. I think CMS Utilities became bundled in with > VM (no additional charge) as of VM/ESA. > > > It was chargeable in VM/SP, and forget about VM/XA. > > I don't recall it in the VM/370 BSE days. > > > > Tom Duerbusch > > THD Consulting > > > > >>> Stephen Frazier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 10/1/2008 > > 10:24 AM >>> I have been using it for at least 10 years. > > I think it has been there as long as account records > has. > > > Scott Rohling wrote: > > > > > > So I guess it's on MAINT 193 :-) Thanks to > > > everybody for the replies.. I wonder how long ACCOUNT > > > MODULE has been out there -- I coded up an EXEC to do > > > the tallying some time ago -- definitely not the first > > time I found myself having reinvented a wheel :-) > > > > Thanks again! > > > > > > Scott Rohling > > > > > > > -- > > Stephen Frazier > > Information Technology Unit > > Oklahoma Department of Corrections > > 3400 Martin Luther King > > Oklahoma City, Ok, 73111-4298 > > Tel.: (405) 425-2549 > > Fax: (405) 425-2554 > > Pager: (405) 690-1828 > > email: stevef%doc.state.ok.us > > > > > > -- > Kris Buelens, > IBM Belgium, VM customer support >
