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2.2.1 Accounting and Chargeback Interface

The CA MICS Analyzer for CA-IDMS provides data elements that
CA MICS Accounting and Chargeback uses to bill for database
management system usage.

From an accounting standpoint, it is always preferable to
recover costs based on direct measurements rather than using
a procedure or formula because the latter are always
estimates.  Direct measurements eliminate guesswork and have
the additional virtue of varying immediately when system or
environmental changes cause the utilization of a resource to
vary.

CA MICS Accounting and Chargeback obtains the information
necessary to create journal entries by interfaces into the
output exits of the IDMS User Activity File (IDMSUA) and the
IDMS Application Unit Counts File (IDMSAC).  The exit point
occurs immediately before the creation of each DAYS timespan
observation for the IDMSUA and IDMSAC files.  If you activate
any of these files at the DETAIL timespan, accounting will
continue to operate as before at the DAYS level.

The standard data elements that are available for use in
chargeback for the IDMS Analyzer can be found in Section
4.2.1.3 of the CA MICS Accounting and Chargeback Guide.