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ACCT (Accounting Facility) › Activating the Accounting Facility

Activating the Accounting Facility

To activate the Accounting Facility, perform the following steps:

  1. Define the accounting database to CA Datacom Datadictionary. (The CA Datacom Datadictionary User Requirements Table must be defined to use the MUF.) For more information, see the CA Datacom/DB Database and System Administration Guide.
  2. Use the ACCT EDIT option to verify that the definition is accepted by the Accounting Facility. See ACCT EDIT (Edit Accounting Database Definitions) for details.
  3. CATALOG the accounting database. See the CA Datacom Datadictionary User Guide for details.
  4. Use the INIT function of DBUTLTY to initialize the accounting database's data and Index Areas. See INIT Data Area (Format Data Area) and INIT IXX (Format Index Area) for details.
  5. Use the LOAD function of DBUTLTY to null load each of the data areas in the accounting database. See LOAD (Build a Data Area) for details.
  6. Change your MUF startup options to include the necessary Accounting Facility parameters. See the CA Datacom/DB Database and System Administration Guide for details.
  7. Use the ACCT CATALOG option to build the accounting database definitions in the PRM table. See ACCT CATALOG (Catalog Accounting Database) for details.
  8. If the accounting tables were specified in the MUF startup options with a status of close, you can use them by issuing an ACCT OPEN (see following information). If not, you can add them by issuing the console command ACCT_ADD (for details, see the CA Datacom/DB Database and System Administration Guide), then issue the ACCT OPEN.
  9. You can permanently change your MUF startup options with an ACCT statement per table including the desired status at MUF startup. This change is then used the next time MUF is reinitialized. For details, see the CA Datacom/DB Database and System Administration Guide.
  10. If the MUF startup option ACCTPRM was specified, then temporary changes to the account tables can be done with the console-like ACCT ADD and ACCT DELETE commands during execution.

The following sections describe each of the operations that you can perform with the ACCT function.