(ZOS) Disabling SMF recording for the entire MVS system

Use this page to disable SMF recording for our MVS™ System (z/OS ).

Make sure that we have our own working copy of SMFPRMxx and SMF is running.

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

Tasks

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.

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

Editing the SMFPRMxx parmlib member