Network Accounting Facility

The Network Accounting Facility (NAF) keeps accounting and audit records at these levels:

  • user
  • terminal
  • application
  • session

The records may be directed either to a BSAM journal dataset or to the active System Management Facility (SMF) dataset. CL/SuperSession must be APF-authorized for SMF recording.

You can use the NAF data to:
  • monitor application and network resource usage
  • evaluate system security measures
  • perform network planning and capacity management
  • provide input for network billing

CL/SuperSession generates NAF records.