RE: Program Usage Accounting

midrange-l-request@xxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:

>   7. Re: Program Usage Accounting (Gord Hutchinson)
>
>What we were interested in was quantifying what are our most used programs
>particularly the interactive programs.  We have a good idea of what the most
>used programs probably are but we wanted numbers.
>
>No particular benefit other than satisfying some curiosity.

Gord:

If a user calls PGMA which calls PGMB which then calls PGMC once for each 
record in a 1000-record file, which will be at the top of the list? It seems to 
me that sheer numbers are going to be extremely useless without a solid schema 
to illustrate all the relationships between calls and the _importance_ of each 
relationship. (Is this a utility call that centers text in a column heading or 
does it do the whole end-of-month procedure?) And are you going to count 
different bound procedure calls? or just dynamic calls into a *PGM object?

I suspect it will remain an item of curiosity. I'd hate someone making 
decisions on such numbers.

Tom Liotta

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