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Overview and Example Price File

As shown in the following table, price file keywords fall into two categories: title or resource. Use the TITLE keyword to specify a title for your report and the resource keywords to specify prices for system resources.

This table shows an example price file that specifies all allowed keywords. The values shown are suggested as a starting point for creating a price list for your system.

Title Keyword

Meaning

Default Value

TITLE

Optional report title

Title line is not printed

Resource Keywords

Meaning

Default Value

BUFFEREDIO_PRICE

Buffered I/O operations

0.00000

CPUSEC_PRICE

CPU time

0.00000

DIRECTIO_PRICE

Direct I/O operations

0.00000

ELAPSEDSEC_PRICE

Elapsed time

0.00000

FAULTIO_PRICE

Page read I/O operations

0.00000

GET_PRICE

Symbiont GET operations

0.00000

IMAGE_PRICE

Image activations

0.00000

MOUNTVOL_PRICE

Volume mounts

0.00000

PAGE_PRICE

Pages printed by symbiont

0.00000

PAGEFAULT_PRICE

Page faults

0.00000

PROCESS_PRICE

Process creations

0.00000

QIO_PRICE

Symbiont QIO operations

0.00000

PRINTJOB_PRICE

Print jobs

0.00000

DISKBLOCK_PRICE

Allocated block per UIC

0.00000

The following example is a price file showing one price for all accounting files:

TITLE = 'September's System Usage Charges'
BUFFEREDIO_PRICE = 0.00010
CPUSEC_PRICE = 0.01000
DIRECTIO_PRICE = 0.00050
ELAPSEDSEC_PRICE = 0.00005
FAULTIO_PRICE = 0.00050
GET_PRICE = 0.00010
IMAGE_PRICE = 0.01000
MOUNTVOL_PRICE = 1.00000
PAGE_PRICE = 0.02500
PAGEFAULT_PRICE = 0.00001
PROCESS_PRICE = 0.10000
QIO_PRICE = 0.00010
DISKBLOCK_PRICE = 0.05000
PRINTJOB_PRICE = 1.00000