Reporting product information

As described in Usage accounting and Product registration and enablement, product management functions extend SMF to automatically:

Measure product usage for any product that registers with SMF and requests the usage measurement function.
Collect information about products that register with MVS™ as running on a particular system image.

SMF also provides a reporting function, IFAURP, a postprocessor program that calculates and reports product usage and product registration, based on the data collected by SMF. This usage report program, IFAURP, is described in detail in this chapter. The major sections include:

IFAURP Overview: provides a high level view of the usage report program.
Invoking IFAURP: describes the JCL (DD and control statements) necessary for invoking the usage report program.
Types of Reports: describes the reports produced by IFAURP, their format and the meaning of the fields.
IFAURP Abend and Condition Codes: lists the possible conditions codes you might receive upon completion of IFAURP and their meanings.
Usage Report Program Messages: lists the messages you might receive from IFAURP processing.

Usage pricing examples contains multiple examples of how to use IFAURP for usage pricing. The chapter lists the control statements and resulting reports for typical customer usage reporting scenarios.