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1.3.1 Cost Center Specifications

Cost Center specifications include:

o Defining your cost center structure using the COSTCTR
  and COSTRTE parameters

o Creating optional cost center validation tables

o Providing names and addresses for individual cost
  centers


THE COST CENTER STRUCTURE

The cost center structure specifies your organizational
hierarchy and any other information that you want carried as
summarization keys (COSTCTR1 - COSTCTRn) in the CA MICS
Accounting and Chargeback files.  You can define up to nine
cost center levels in the structure.

COSTCTR Parameter
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You define your cost center structure in the COSTCTR
parameter.  This is where you specify the number of levels in
your cost center hierarchy, the meaning of each level, and
the length of the corresponding COSTCTR variables.  The
COSTCTR variables are used as keys for most of the CA MICS
Accounting and Chargeback files.

COSTRTE Parameter
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This is a SAS routine that you modify to specify what data is
to be assigned to the COSTCTR variables.  This routine is
invoked for each data source being charged (SMF, IMS, DB2,
etc.), and you specify the assignments separately for each
data source.

The assignments can be made from any data source variables
that are input or computed by the CA MICS Data Integration
Applications or external file input routines.


COST CENTER VALIDATION TABLES

These are optional tables of valid values for each cost
center level.  If present, these tables are checked when cost
center values are entered online and during batch data entry
for utility jobs, but they are NOT used to validate the
values assigned by the COSTRTE during journal file or
external file processing.  If you need this type of
validation, you should provide for it in the COSTRTE.


NAMES AND ADDRESSES

You can specify names and addresses for cost centers in the
Cost Center Attributes Identification panels.  The names and
addresses will appear on the invoices and supplemental
reports, so you will probably want to specify them at least
for your invoice level cost centers.