Transaction Accountant overview
The Transaction Accountant is a component of the MainView for IMS Offline product that is used for billing and cost control analysis.
The Transaction Accountant can produce bills for users directly. It can also be interfaced with the site’s major accounting system by means of the IMS resource utilization file (IRUF).
The Transaction Accountant provides the IMS accounting administrator with many options pertinent to the charge-out requirements for an IMS system. It can function as a stand-alone component or as part of a combination of several components of the MainView for IMS product.
The following table lists:
- Items that can be charged
- Descriptions for each charge
- Rate categories applied
Charge-out options and rates
Item to charge | Type of rate | Rate categories |
|---|---|---|
Basic resource | Standard Charges a cost to the transaction for each resource consumed | Rate categories are:
|
Data base | Standard Based on database requests (DL/I calls) and actual I/O | Rate categories are:
|
Special Charges associated with specified databases | Differential charge-out to be applied to specified databases (the same type of rates apply as for standard) | |
DB2 | Standard Based on DB2 requests (SQL calls) | SQL call types:
|
Special Charges associated with specified DB2 application plan names | Differential charge-out to be applied to specified DB2 application plan names (the same type of rates apply as for standard) | |
MQ | Standard Based on MQ requests (MQ calls) | Call types:
|
Special Charges associated with specified MQ subsystem activity | Charge-out rates are applied for activity on the specified MQ subsystem | |
Terminal | Standard Based on terminal requests (DL/I calls) and I/O | Rate categories are:
|
Special Charges associated with specified logical terminals | Differential pricing mechanism for the users of those terminals (the same rate categories apply as for standard) | |
Customer | Special Charges associated with specified customers | Discount or markup charge-out for specified customers |
Transaction | Standard Minimum charge to process each transaction (charge is added to the basic resource charge for each transaction) | Transactions normally costing $0.46 with a minimum transaction charge of $0.10 will cost $0.56 |
Special Flat charge to execute a particular transaction | Fixed unit charge (for example, $0.20 per execution), instead of using the resource rate method |
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