Internally-generated transactional accounting data

Advanced Accounting also captures data that is generated internally. This information cannot be changed by the user, but is needed by accounting.

The following table describes the internally-generated data.

Table 1. Internally-generated transactional accounting data
Parameter	Description
User name and identifier	The user name and identifier is derived from the user sub-buffer that is specified when starting a transaction. It is intended to identify the agent that started the transaction. It can be an IP address or a machine name. It is not necessarily a UNIX user name or user ID.
Response and queued times	Response and queued times describe the quality of service that was provided to the transaction. Response and queued times identify the elapsed time of the transaction and the time spent in the application before any real action was taken.
Resource utilization	The resource utilization of a transaction describes the physical use of resources such as the amount of processor time spent on the transaction. This statistic cannot always be computed because an application may work on multiple transactions simultaneously. In fact, this statistic will not be calculated, unless the application uses the arm_bind_thread() interface, which dedicates a thread to a single transaction.