Using the CICS Monitoring Facility (CMF) with CICSPlex SM

Some classes of monitoring data for CICSPlex® SM, in particular detailed task-related data that is displayed in some transaction monitoring views, cannot be collected unless CICS® performance class data monitoring is active in the monitored CICS system.

You can activate performance class data monitoring for an active CICS region using the CICSPlex SM operations functions, the CICS monitoring facility transaction CEMN, or the SET MONITOR command. Alternatively, you can activate performance class data monitoring permanently using CICS system initialization parameters.

CICS monitoring data is usually written to an SMF data set. However, if you prefer, you can collect monitoring data for use by CICSPlex SM without having it written to an SMF data set, by specifying the CICSPlex SM system parameter SUPPRESSCMF. For more information about this parameter, see CICSPlex SM system parameters.

For more information about the different classes of monitoring data, and about controlling the CICS monitoring facility, see Introduction to CICS monitoring.