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To: BILLING --INTERNET

FROM:  Don Mayfield DMAY Chevron Info Tech Co./ATD/Chevron Serv. Div
REPLY-TO: <DMAY@chevron.com>
SUBJECT: MVS DASD billing
Chevron  Information Technology  company we  bill  for MVS  DASD in  two
different datacenters.  Because of the  separate history of the  two, we
bill somewhat differently. In  one we use DMS and the  other we use MICS
DASD component.  The DMS has a  billing component which includes  a VTOC
SCAN job for  collecting the accumulated track-days each  day. MICS DASD
has a similar data collection job in the other datacenter.

The major difference between the two  datacenter is in how we assign the
charge code to the dataset. The MICS DASD component has been modified to
call  a routine  that passes  the DSN  to a  function that  looks for  a
special RACF dataset entry for billing purposes, which has a charge code
that is passed back and placed in the observation.

On the other datacenter where DMS  is the collection tool, we unload the
collected data  at the  end of  the billing  period and  load it  into a
Nomad2 database. A monthly process then  assignes the charge code to the
DSN from a DASDBILL table, which  is a Nomad2 database maintained by the
customers on VM and exported to MVS  for this monthly process. We do not
use the RACF  profile for the dataset in this  datacenter because of the
racf is not required for each dataset, as it is in the other datacenter.

I would like to hear how other organizations bill for MVS datasets.

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