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.