VMS Help ACCOUNTING, /BRIEF, Description  *Conan The Librarian (sorry for the slow response - running on an old VAX)

    The /BRIEF qualifier is the default. It produces a brief report
    of the selected records. The report is directed to the current
    SYS$OUTPUT device, unless you use the /OUTPUT qualifier to write
    it to a file. (Note that /OUTPUT is Alpha-only.)

    Each line of a brief report corresponds to a record in the
    accounting file. It does not show resources used, but gives the
    information shown in the following table about each record in the
    accounting file.

    Column    Description

    Date/Time When the record was logged in the accounting file.
    Type      The type of the record.
    Subtype   For records of type IMAGE, this is the name of
              the image (the file name portion of its file
              specification). For records of type PROCESS, it is
              the type of the process (BATCH, DETACHED, INTERACTIVE,
              NETWORK, or SUBPROCESS).
    User      The user name. For login failures where the user did
    name      not give a valid user name, this is shown as <login>.
    ID        The process identifier (PID). For print jobs, this is
              the PID of the process that submitted the job.
    Source    The terminal associated with an interactive process or,
              for DECnet for OpenVMS requests, the name of the node
              that issued the request.
    Status    The final exit status code, expressed as a hexadecimal
              value.

    To translate the final exit status code into the equivalent
    message text, use the F$MESSAGE lexical function, and precede
    the status code with %X, as in this example:

    $ MESSAGE = F$MESSAGE(%X00000001)
    $ SHOW SYMBOL MESSAGE
      MESSAGE = "%SYSTEM-S-NORMAL, normal successful completion"

    See also the /BINARY qualifier, which copies the selected records
    to a file, and the /FULL and /SUMMARY qualifiers, which produce
    full and summary reports of the selected records.

    You cannot use the /BRIEF qualifier with the /BINARY, /FULL,
    or /SUMMARY qualifiers.