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| RA V6 was year 2,000 compliant. For RA V7 additional Y2K checks and tests were performed. |
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| The summary report was available in only two formats; with charge information or without. RA V7 includes a newly written summary report generated which uses specification files to include whichever items and charges are desired. In the specification file users specify the items they want included in the report, the format for displaying the values (width and number of decimal places) and a factor to divide the value by to conserve space (1 is the default but a factor of 1,000 or 1,000,000 can be applied). When a summary report is generated without including the /specification=file qualifier RA will use RA_DAT:default_specification.spc - this file also contains a description of how to create your own, site specific, specification files. |
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| RA V6 added a new export report which generated a deliminted ASCII text file with all the values in an RA .sav file. With V7 this report can now be created summarized by account, group, UIC and UIC group as well. The report uses the same report generator as the new summary report and the items to be exported can be controlled with a specification file. The logical names RA$NOHEADER and RA$DELIMITER can be used to help control the contents of this report. |
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| The current 2-page user report (called the detail report) now takes 3 pages if all information is included. With RA V7 it is possible to suppress any lines that are zero, by adding /nozero_records, to the command line when generating this report. |
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| The client file now includes an additional Fixed Charge field. When a value is entered in this field the user will have this fixed charge added to their monthly charges automatically. Sites wishing to take advantage of this feature must run a special command procedure once a month to ensure that users with a fixed charge but no monthly resource usage charges are included in reporting. RA normally excludes any users with no charges in the accounting file from save files and reports. |
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| RA’s internal data storage and save file storage now uses floating point numbers exclusively. This should eliminate the problem with integer overflow errors that many users at larger sites have been reporting. |
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| Since the previous item involved a change to RA’s save file format a conversion utility is included that can be run to convert RA save files from V5.0, V5.1, V5.2 and V6.0 to the new V7.0 format. |
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| It is now possible to add image level charges to RA. Used in conjunction with the /accounting qualifier in the install utility it is now possible to charge users for running specific images without enabling image accounting for the entire system. Charges can be defined for images by user, group or account with different charge values for prime/nonprime and batch/interactive image usage. |
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| RA has a new utility program that allows you to add fixed charges to a session at the DCL level. Privileged users can add charges for other accounts as well. This utility allows sites to add fixed usage charges into DCL driven menu systems; and implements our most frequently requested enhancement since V5 of RA was released. |
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| All RA reports have been modified, as needed, to accommodate the new fixed charges and image charges. New reports providing details for fixed and image charges have also been added. |
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| The RA detail report has been modified to omit lines with a charge amount of $0.00 by default. This change was made as the new lines for fixed charges and image charges make the report 3 pages long. If the /zero_records qualifier is specified the report will be generated with all data lines included, otherwise only lines with charges associated with are printed. |
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