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Disabling SMF recording for the entire MVS system

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.
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