[729] in Enterprise Print Delivery Team
Re: Accounting information
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Rachel Sage)
Tue Nov 28 13:30:21 2000
Message-Id: <200011281830.NAA13850@fort-point-station.mit.edu>
Date: Tue, 28 Nov 00 13:21:35 EST
From: Rachel Sage <SAGE@MITVMA.MIT.EDU>
To: "Lynne E. Durland" <durland@MIT.EDU>, Rachel Sage <sage@MIT.EDU>
cc: printdel@MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: Message of Tue, 28 Nov 2000 13:16:10 -0500 from <durland@MIT.EDU>
Lynne,
We haven't modified the accounting records that are cut for PSF. We
get records from both the SFCMs and PDMs.
We get a few numbers, including number of logical pages, number of physical
pages and the number of impressions for a print file.
There is also a code which indicates whether the job finished
normally or ended with an error.
I'll copy the definition for you.
Now, as far as what we do with all of that info, you's have to ask the
accounting guru!
Rachel
On Tue, 28 Nov 2000 13:16:10 -0500 you said:
>Hi Rachel,
>
>We on the print delivery team are trying to deal with and or understand a
>couple of accounting issues associated with printing.
>
>There are a couple of potential situations that we were have been looking
>at and wondered how the accounting related to similar situations on the
>mainframe are handled.
>
>In IPM when a file that is printing is interrupted by a paper jam, out of
>paper or operator intervention, the file restarts at the beginning and the
>accounting reflects the total page count for pages printed (actually clicks
>but for this discussion lets just call them pages). Is there an indicator
>on the accounting record from the mainframe for restart or reprint of part
>of the file? In other words what are we doing now in a situation like this?
>
>Also do the accounting records being cut on the mainframe include
>simplex/duplex indicator and number of copies, not just total number of
>pages printed? And if so did we do something to customize the accounting exit?
>
>At the moment we are getting bare bones accounting records and sometime in
>the future we will be trying to work with IBM to get better accounting out
>of IPM, and as part of that we were hoping to have information for what the
>accounting for printing we are using on the mainframe has for comparison.
>
>Any and all information you can provide will be extremely helpful.
>
>Thanks,
>
>Lynne
>Lynne E. Durland
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>
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