Description of the software usage report generated by Example 7 after STOP

CICS® usage values for April to September remain in the “For Billing Purposes”, because CICS was under the MULC option for those months. However, starting with the October value all CICS usage values will be reported in the “For Collection Purposes Only” section of the report to indicate to IBM® that CICS is no longer under measured usage pricing for the next six month billing period.

Note: The STOP keyword, affects the usage values related to the next billing period, relative to the execution date of the usage report program in which STOP was processed. If STOP had been processed on or before September 30, for instance, the CICS usage values for April through September would have been placed in the “Collection” section, because they all correspond to the billing period that starts November 1st. The relationship between the measurement and corresponding billing periods for each processor are provided on the Time Period Reports.