Collecting audit trace records

You can prepare the z/OS® System Management Facilities (SMF) or z/OS generalized trace facility (GTF) to accept audit trace records the same way as you prepare performance trace records. The records are of SMF type 102, as are performance trace records.

About this task

If you send trace records to SMF (the default), data might be lost in the following circumstances:

SMF fails while Db2 continues to run.
An unexpected abend (such as a TSO interrupt) occurs while Db2 is transferring records to SMF.

In those circumstances, SMF records the number of records that are lost. z/OS provides an option to stop the system rather than to lose SMF data.