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Using Other Currencies

If you desire to accumulate and charge for DASD space in a unit of currency other than dollars and cents, such as Japanese yen or Italian lire, specify sysparm DSBALTRT with a value of 1. This changes the billing rates assigned in the DSCRATEC member from a dollars and cents value to just a unit of currency expressed with decimal places. If this feature is used, specifying 993.25 in the DSBRATEC member would indicate that for all volumes assigned to category code 99, either 3.25 lire or 3.25 yen are to be charged for each track or kilobyte day. (To review the rules explaining the format of the DSBRATEC table entries, see Define Billing Rates for Each Category.) The rate value shown on the billing reports will be shown as five digits with two decimal places, but the amounts and totals will be shown as full numbers with no decimal places.

Note: This alternate rate specification can also be used for other forms of currency as appropriate.