Job account numbers

If your installation uses the JES2 4-character account numbers, you can use translation services to map from one set of local account numbers to another. Use either the NETACCT initialization statement or the /* NETACCT JECL statement to make an account number available to all nodes in a network. Installations can use the network job header to transmit and receive an accounting section that is composed of the complete accounting string used on the JCL JOB statement to create the job.

When specifying multiple NETACCT initialization statements to determine how network account numbers are converted to JES2 (local) account numbers, ensure that any ranges specified do not overlap. If they do, the second NETACCT statement overlays the first; JES2 does not convert network account numbers that were only specified in the first NETACCT statement into local (JES2) account numbers.

In the following example, the second NETACCT initialization statement specifies a range (A33 to B0) that overrides the range (A11 to B0) specified by the first statement. All jobs received from the network with network account number from A11 to A32 would not receive a JES2 (local) account number.

NETACCT NACCT=A11,NTHRU=B0,JACCT=AAA,TYPE=BOTH
NETACCT NACCT=A33,NTHRU=B0,JACCT=3AA,TYPE=BOTH

A local job that specified 'AAA' would still be sent into the network account number in the range A11 to B0.