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Account Codes in z/OS JOB Statements

This product can retain a maximum of 48 bytes of accounting data from raw SMF records.

The following illustrates how a typical JOB accounting string is processed.

//MYJOB JOB (1234,ABCD,X,Y,Z),'PROGRAMMER.NAME',
 //          MSGLEVEL=1

The Accounting Field information, without the intermixed commas (,), appear in the corresponding field of the job and step records as follows:

1234ABCDXYZ

If less than 16 bytes of accounting data is coded (as in this example), the character string is left-justified and placed in positions 77-92 of the account record. More that 16 bytes causes an overflow into positions 487-502, as needed, and is always left-justified.

If a positional subparameter of the accounting information is omitted, the passed data is arranged left to right. That is, in the above example if the data were (1234,,X,Z) the field would become 1234XZ.