Network accounting

The JES2 NETACCT initialization statement determines the correspondence between the network account numbers and the local account numbers for a node. JES2 uses the parameters on the NETACCT statement to build the network account table used by input processing, the job and SYSOUT transmitters, and the job and SYSOUT receivers.

JES2 recognizes the following network accounting control statement:

/*NETACCT=vvvvvvvv: where vvvvvvvv is a 1- to 8-byte alphanumeric character network account identifier. When the input service processor encounters this statement, it inserts the network account identifier in the job's job header and looks up the number in the network account table built at JES2 initialization, to find an associated local account number. If a local account number is found, JES2 will move the number into the job's job control table, overriding any account number present in the JOB statement. Processing always interprets the /*NETACCT statement, regardless of its position in relation to the /*ROUTE XEQ or /*XEQ statement.

When transmitting a job or its system output, JES2 sends the network account number as part of the job header. At each node, the job receiver and SYSOUT receiver perform the same table lookup as that of input processing did to obtain a local account number for use by that node. Thus, accounting is a local function using whatever set of account numbers the system programmer defined on a given node.