Precisely. The discussion seemed to have deteriorated to one of, "When might monitor data be lost?" Since the topic was monitor vs. accounting, it appeared that someone should point out that accounting data did not miraculously survive a sudden pulling of the plug, either.
It seems that Barton prefers Monitor data (I wonder why) and unnamed people at BofA prefer Accounting data (not much surprise there - to a bean counter, having the word accounting in the name bestows upon it a superior status). Regards, Richard Schuh > -----Original Message----- > From: The IBM z/VM Operating System > [mailto:ib...@listserv.uark.edu] On Behalf Of Alan Altmark > Sent: Friday, April 03, 2009 11:29 AM > To: IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU > Subject: Re: Monitor versus accounting data > > On Friday, 04/03/2009 at 12:01 EDT, "Schuh, Richard" <rsc...@visa.com> > wrote: > > And accounting data would not be lost under the same circumstances? > > Under those circumstances (pull the plug) all unread > accounting data is > lost. On a SHUTDOWN or abend, unread accounting data is > written to the > checkpoint area and restored at IPL. > > Alan Altmark > z/VM Development > IBM Endicott >
