Re: cost acctg on AS400/who's using the AS400?

In the short term(2hrs) you'll probably only be able to pull together DASD
allocation (based on library or object owners) and a snapshot of users
currently on the system.
The DASD  allocation may be a little complicated if all of your files and
journals that are used by completely different applications are owned by
the same group profile.  It depends on how your applications are split out
too.  If they're split out into different libraries, that becomes much
easier.  If they're all thrown into one big library, best of luck to you.
If you have your disk collection job running on a regular basis, you can
query your QAEZDISK file, rather than wait for a dspobjd on everything on
your system to finish just to get the sizes.

For processing information in the short term, I think you'll have to 'best
guess' it unless you already have job accounting set up.
Long term, you'll need to implement job accounting and have had that
running for a period of time (Day, week, month, year) to get a true feel
for what department's work (based on job accounting code) is resulting in a
percentage of total CPU utilization, DASD I/O,  etc.

If you get it all set up, it should be a snap for you to pull the
information out next month (or year).

Good luck on your tight deadline.

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Daniel L. Gray
Maverick Transportation, Inc.