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SYSOUT Processing for Orphan Type 6 and CA Dispatch 6 Records

When a SMF type 6 record is not accompanied by either job or step level record, a zero step job record is created. The CA Dispatch compatibility code for CA Dispatch 6 records also generates a zero step job record, since accounting fields are at the job level. This is the way to split the charge based on the recipient, if multiple copies of a report are generated through CA Dispatch. This also means that there will not be any job resource utilization statistics accumulated in the zero step job, only SYSOUT data for that job. To record the accounting information from the CA Dispatch 6 record the first 31 bytes of the minor charge code, SM6MINOR, is present in the CA JARS Batch Accounting table as ACCOUNT FIELD 2 and ACCOUNT FIELD 3.

Byte 32 of the SM6MINOR field is overlaid in position 16 of ACCOUNT FIELD 3 with a value of * indicating that the record has been created as a result of processing a CA Dispatch 6 record. A value of $ in this position indicates that an Orphan SMF type 6 was processed to create the job record. On the Account Record Summary both Orphan type 6 and CA Dispatch records are shown. In addition these zero step job records are not used in the totals for number of jobs (DE ID 14) and on the summary line for step number (DE ID 56).