This information describes how to disable SMF recording
for WebSphere® Application
Server for z/OS®.
Before you begin
Ensure that you have proper access to the administrative console.
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 WebSphere Application Server:
Procedure
- In the administrative console, click .
- On the configuration page, click .
- To disable SMF type 120 records, set the following properties
to false:
- name = server_SMF_server_activity_enabled = 0 (or server_SMF_server_activity_enabled
= false)
- name = server_SMF_server_interval_enabled = 0 (or false)
- name = server_SMF_container_activity_enabled = 0 (or false)
- name = server_SMF_container_interval_enabled = 0 (or false)
- name = server_SMF_request_activity_enabled = 0 (or false).
- name = server_SMF_request_activity_CPU_detail
= 0. To enable the property, set the value to 1.
- name = server_SMF_request_activity_timestamps
= 0 To enable the property, set the value to 1.
- name = server_SMF_request_activity_security
= 0 To enable the property, set the value to 1.
- name = server_SMF_request_activity_enabled=0 (or server_SMF_request_activity_enabled=false).
- name = server_SMF_request_activity_async = 0 (or false)
- name = server_SMF_outbound_enabled = 0 (or false)
Alternatively, you could delete the SMF related properties.
However, it will be easier for you to enable SMF recording later if
you keep the properties in place and just change their values to false.
- Click OK or Apply.
- Save the changes and make sure a file sync is performed
before restarting the servers.
- For the changes to take effect, restart the application
server.
Results
You have successfully disabled SMF recording for WebSphere Application Server when SMF records
of records type 120 are no longer being recorded.