Description

   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.