Disabling SMF recording for the entire MVS system

Before you begin

Make sure that you have your own working copy of SMFPRMxx and SMF is running.

Why and when to perform this task

SMF recording can be enabled for WebSphere Application Server, and for z/OS and OS/390. The following steps describe how to disable SMF recording for your MVS System (z/OS and OS/390):

Steps for this task

  1. Edit the SMFPRMxx parmlib member and set SMFPRMxx to "NOACTIVE" which will disable the writing of SMF records to DASD. Use the SET command to activate that SMF parmlib member on the MVS system.

Results

SMF recording has successfully been disabled for the whole MVS system when SMF records for for both z/OS and OS/390 and WebSphere Application Server are no longer being written to DASD.

Related tasks
Editing the SMFPRMxx parmlib member



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