5. PROCESSING

Accounting and Chargeback's standard processing encompasses
all of the steps necessary to compute charges from the
information managed by CA MICS products. This includes all of
the CA MICS products' daily update steps, Accounting and
Chargeback's daily and monthly update steps, any processing
required for manual adjustments (credits and debits), and
production of the invoice reports.

Standard processing does not include any of the processing
steps required by Accounting and Chargeback options such as
prorating and zero-balancing.  These processes are discussed
in Chapter 4, Customization.


HOW UNIT-LEVEL LIBRARIES ARE ALLOCATED FOR COMPLEX-LEVEL
ACCOUNTING JOBS

Some information, such as the number of file cycles retained,
is stored at the unit level.  This means that complex level
jobs sometimes need to allocate unit level libraries
containing Accounting and Chargeback. The following
discussion explains how a unit is allocated.

The search order used to allocate unit-level libraries for
complex level accounting jobs such as CLOSETBL and INVOICE is
determined by the logic in the MNACTCOM routine.

Unit-level libraries are allocated in the following order:

  DBType    Unit ID (if ACT installed)
  ------    --------------------------
1. PRIMARY   any
2. UNIT      A-Z then 0-9 (in ascending order)
3. SPECIAL   A-Z then 0-9 (in ascending order)
4. TEST      A-Z then 0-9 (in ascending order)

This means that the primary unit is used if it contains
Accounting and Chargeback.  Otherwise, the first standard
unit (in alphanumeric order by unit ID) that contains
Accounting and Chargeback is used.

The following sections describe the standard Accounting and
Chargeback processes and has checklists to aid you in
planning, scheduling, and tracking accounting processing.

 1 - Running Daily Processes
 2 - Running Monthly Processes
 3 - Running Yearly Processes
 4 - Producing Audit Reports
 5 - Recovering from Processing Problems

This section contains the following topics:

5.1 Running Daily Processes

5.2 Running Monthly Processes

5.3 Running Yearly Processes

5.4 Producing Audit Reports

5.5 Recovering from Processing Problems