I have done it 3 1/2 times. The first time was in FORTRAN under VM/370 R5. Two times at this job using paid-for products (VMAccount and CA-JARS). Both were too much information for management and not enough of the right information for me. The 1/2 time was much more recent thanks to a special survey last May that eventually ignored all IFL usage. I started that process in REXX and PIPELINES with the structured fields support. I think that could have potential but I don't have to do any real accounting anymore. They want to charge as if everything was a dedicated wintel box. I am out of the hard part.
/Tom Kern Jim Bohnsack wrote: > My IBM management, 25 years ago, went by the same idea that all users > should pay a fixed fee. I finally convinced them that your way, i.e. a > smaller fixed fee and then incremental charges made sense. I used the > analogy of a hotel. When you walk into a Holiday Inn, you know that > there is some kind of base rate, but when you ask for an extra bed or a > corner bedroom or room service, you are charged an extra fee. 25 years > ago, the situation was kind of similar to running a Linux guest. Most > of the users were PROFS users, but we also supported IBM instructors who > needed to bring up an MVS guest to prepare for a class. There was no > good reason to charge user A opening a PROFS note and user B running a > guest MVS and calling them the same. Writing the accounting code to > handle the accounting records is no small task. I did it in the '80's > and would share it except that that was 2 jobs ago and I almost > certainly didn't keep any of it to share. > > Jim >
