topic Re: ACCOUNTING/IMAGE in Operating System - OpenVMS

ACCOUNTING/IMAGE

Chris M. Hornbeck_1 — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 16:00:00 GMT

I am trying to get some accounting information on images (image accounting is turned on).

I want to exclude certain images on this process.
However, if I list more than one image to be excluded, only the first image is excluded.

I'm trying this:
ACCOUNTING/IMAGE=(-LOGINOUT, -SET, -DELETE)...

Only the LOGINOUT image is excluded.
What is the correct syntax to get this feature working?

OpenVMS 8.3 on Itanium.

Re: ACCOUNTING/IMAGE

EdgarZamora — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 16:17:01 GMT

If you do a "-", the rest of the images are assumed to be negated too. So do a (-LOGINOUT,SET,DELETE)

Re: ACCOUNTING/IMAGE

Hoff — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 16:21:45 GMT

Looks like a bug in the tool, and certainly also a gap in the provided documentation. Lob a bug report at HP.

If you're in a hurry or if you lack a support contract, there are options...

Try several distinct ACCOUNTING commands in sequence in a procedure, with an intermediate binary file for each stage of the filtering process, as a workaround.

Or roll your own tool that provides the data you need, as the accounting record format is documented.

Re: ACCOUNTING/IMAGE

Chris M. Hornbeck_1 — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 17:19:43 GMT

Eliminating the "-" on the rest of the images does the trick.

Thanks for the help.

Re: ACCOUNTING/IMAGE

Chris M. Hornbeck_1 — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 17:22:21 GMT

using the recommended fix:
ACCOUNTING/IMAGE=(-LOGINOUT,SET,DELETE)

instead of this:
ACCOUNTING/IMAGE=(-LOGINOUT,-SET,-DELETE)

gives me the solution to my problem.