Of course this depends on no disasters, unscheduled
shutdowns or breakage. A lot depends on the value of the
accounting data. If it represents $$$, then you should do
everything you can to protect and preserve it. Back in my
IGS days in Tampa before I retired, the service machine
that did the regular CP ACNT ALL then linked to the
accounting disk and copied the file to a minidisk on a
separate physical volume. At 00:30 it compared the two,
merged the data and sent it to our MVS system for regular
customer billing. The data was left in place until the MVS
job completed and we got the job response back at the
service machine. Then it was safe to tell the accounting
machine to erase the file. Special Billing used the backup
copy of the accounting data to charge the customer for
faxes sent by the vendor. The biggest trick for us was
adhering to the ISO and Accounting Standards! We new the
data was safe but had to be able to *prove* it to Auditors
and the IRS, on both the VM and MVS side.
Les
Cal wrote:
Hi Terry
What you would get in that case is all the accounting records since the
last time you did a CP ACNT ALL. In this case if you issued it every day
at 23:45 you would get records that include usage for 15 minutes from
yesterday and 23 hours and 45 minutes of today. The problem with this is
you have no details on what happened during that time. But maybe that is
all your capacity group is intersted in. This may be sufficient for what
they want. I have one system where they use this data to charge back the
customer. In this case there is no difference in charges for different
times during the day so a CP ACNT ALL once a day is fine.
Cal Fisher
MVMUA website http://www2.marist.edu/~mvmua/
