

	                         AKCOUNT
	             VAX/VMS V3.x ACCOUNTING SOFTWARE

	Version:  November 1984

	Author:   K. Trumbley and M. Serrer,
	          National Research Council of Canada,
	          Ottawa, Ontario, Canada.

	Operating System:  VAX/VMS V3.7

	Source Language:  VAX-11 FORTRAN and VAX-11 MACRO

	     The AKCOUNT software has been designed to provide  a
	VAX  computer  installation running V3.x of VMS operating
	system software with all the necessary  accounting  tools
	to charge users for resources used.  The package includes
	all the source code plus various  command  procedures  as
	well as installation notes.
	     The software in SYSTEMS LABORATORY of NRC  has  been
	set  up  as  a  batch  job to execute every Friday night.
	When the  job  runs,  the  information  from  the  system
	accounting  file,  plus  listing files from DISKQUOTA and
	AUTHORIZE are merged  together  and  written  to  a  file
	"SYS$ACCOUNT:AKCOUNT.TOT".  A report generator reads this
	file and creates detailed or summary type printouts.
	     The future of this software greatly depends  on  the
	differences  between  version  3  and  version  4  system
	accounting files.  In order to simplify the upgrade,  the
	code   which   extracts   information   from  the  system
	accounting file is incorporated in  one  subroutine.   If
	the  differences  are  as  drastic  as  seen  back in the
	version 2/3 upgrade, more subroutines may need some work.
             This  version  of  the AKCOUNT software has some new
        features  added  over  the version submitted to the DECUS
        Library, (Date submitted to DECUS -- August 1984).

	Documentation on magnetic media.

