Collecting job-related information with Systems Management Facility (SMF)

This article gives an overview of how to enable and use the System Management Facilities (SMF) to collect and record system and job-related information.

System Management Facilities (SMF) can be enabled to collect and record system and job-related information on the WebSphere Application Server for z/OS system. This information can be used to bill users, report system reliability, analyze your configuration, schedule work, identify system resource usage, and perform other performance-related tasks that your organization may require.

You can enable SMF recording for:


Related tasks
Enabling SMF recording
Formatting the output data set
Viewing the output data set
Disabling SMF recording for WebSphere Application Server
Disabling SMF recording for the entire MVS system
Related reference
Setting up SMF
Overview of SMF record type 120
Overview of SMF record type 80



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Last updated: Jun 21, 2007 9:56:50 PM CDT    WebSphere Application Server for z/OS, Version 5.0.2
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