Use this page to disable SMF recording for your MVS™ System (z/OS®).
Before you begin
Make sure that you have your own working copy of SMFPRMxx and SMF
is running.
About this task
SMF recording can be enabled for WebSphere® Application Server and for z/OS.
The following steps describe how to disable SMF recording for your MVS System (z/OS):
Procedure
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 z/OS and WebSphere Application
Server are no longer being written to DASD.