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By: abigail

abigail — Wed, 16 Nov 2011 14:23:34 +0000

This is not a required netry for a user profile set up. We do use the accounting code in the profiles for reporting purposes. Examples: ITDLACP represents Information Technology Lansing Corporate. HRCHP1 represents Human Resources Chicago Plant 1.

By: tomliotta

tomliotta — Wed, 16 Nov 2011 00:46:52 +0000

The profile accounting code is used when you enable the system’s job accounting features. The attribute is CHAR(15).

Reporting of job accounting data can be done generically by accounting. That lets you assign codes in groups so that the first three characters might indicate a division, the next three might be a department within a division, etc.

When I set up job accounting, I try to limit codes to maybe 10 or 12 characters. That leaves space at the end for use by special functions. When someone calls such a function, it will have code that runs CHGACGCDE to put the special code characters into the final positions before the function starts its normal work and to blank those positions out before returning. The RTVJOBA ACGCDE() can return the current accounting code to use as the base code. Reporting can then select just the entries for those functions.

Lots of info can be gleaned from job accounting data.

Tom