A: MICS Accounting maintains a series of SAS formats that are used, primarily by MICS SAS code, but they are also available for user-developed SAS code. The following SAS formats can be used in SAS or in MICF for display Accounting-related descriptive information:

Format – Description
$ACTCMPF – Computation…

This area always generates a healthy and sometimes revealing discussion given the evolution of MVS address space CPU reporting as well as processor speeds. With MVS/ESA 4.2, CPU measurement capture in the SMF type 30 “went to the next level” with IBM adding previously unaccounted CPU time measurement fields, though some sites…