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From: OC.CIVIL@CU20B.COLUMBIA.EDU (Holt Farley)
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Subject: VMS V4.4 Job controllers and accounting utility
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Date: Fri, 8-Aug-86 14:42:41 EDT
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	There appear to be at least 4 versions of the VMS v4.4 job controller
(SYS$SYSTEM:JOBCTL.EXE) that have been distributed by DEC as a result of
different software distributions and image patches.  At least one of these
versions has a significant impact on the accounting utility.

	The SET ACCOUNTING commands DO NOT work as documented!!!

In particular, with my version of the job controller, doing a
SET ACCOUNTING/DISABLE will both stop accounting and disable all the keyword
flags.  (Keyword flags are not supposed to be cleared.)  A subsequent
SET ACCOUNTING/ENABLE will restart accounting, but since all the keyword flags
have been cleared, NOTHING is logged to ACCOUNTNG.DAT.  I have to do a second
SET ACCOUNTING/ENABLE=(BATCH,...) command to set all the keyword flags I want.

This behavior is distinctly different from earlier versions of V4 and the
V4.4 documentation.  If you use VMS accounting you should investigate the
behavior of your job controller.  DEC is aware of this problem and claims
they will have info on their SOFTWARE INFORMATION NETWORK sometime soon.

Holt Farley
Columbia University Civil Engineering
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