The accounting facility records how resources are consumed on the database manager. Resources are consumed both by individual users, and by processes that cannot be attributed to a single user, such as startup, shutdown, checkpoints, and archives. This information is collected in fixed-length records, 80 bytes long, that describe who or what consumed resources.
The records include up to 16 bytes for installation-dependent data, where you can supply information such as account numbers or project numbers. These 16 bytes can come from:
If you already have routines to process other accounting records, you can modify them to handle the DB2 Server for VSE records. You can also use the database manager itself to store your accounting data, and use ISQL to easily manipulate the data and generate reports.