Anne--Accounting records are created entirely by activity on the
system. You will see a record for every user session, for LINK commands,
TDISK usage, another type can be created by RSCS for file transfers and so
on. Some of this can be somewhat controlled by entries in SYSTEM
CONFIG. You can take a look at the records that are created, using the
record layouts in the Planning and Administration manual. If you were only
creating 51 records per day previously and now 4000, something changed.
As far as how you get rid of old files, probably everyone has their own
methods. Personally, I set an id up to be the SECUSER for DISKACNT. With
that in place, I temporarily stop recording by sending a CP EXT
command. With recording stopped, I send that day's file to wherever I
process the records (MVS in my case), run an exec to clean up old
accounting files, and restart recording and record retrieval. I can send
you the code if you want.
A 1 cyl collection disk is pretty small even for a system that doesn't do
much in the way of account record generation. Why don't you splurge and
give it a few more cylinders.
Jim
At 08:09 AM 4/6/2006, you wrote:
I'm not sure if anyone can help me, but am asking anyway! I'm having
problems with the DISKACNT machine. I had a routine set up with DISKACNT
and ACCSRV to collect accounting records. Everything was going fine
except that the DISKACNT A disk was filling up about every 30 days or
so. I had DISKACNT set up with a PROFILE EXEC similar to ACCSRV with a
WAKEUP that retrieved account and then tried to clean. I've come to the
conclusion that once the RETRIEVE ACCOUNT command is entered, that is all
DISKACNT does and it was not recognizing any commands afterwards thereby
not cleaning the disk. So, I changed DISKACNT PROFILE EXEC to just issue
RETRIEVE ACCOUNT and created a batch job to run weekly to clean up the A
disk for DISKACNT using ftp with MAINT forcing DISKACNT off, doing a clean
routine and then logging DISKACNT back on. My problem? All of a sudden
DISKACNT appears to be writing records every 15 minutes or so causing the
A disk to fill up in a little over 24 hours (I still have the A disk as 1
cylinder). Before it would write about 51 records for a day and now it is
writing 4000! I do not understand how my change could have done
this. Any ideas?
Jim Bohnsack
Cornell Univ.
(607) 255-1760
