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Enabling SMF recording

Use this page to enable SMF recording for WebSphere® Application Server and select SMF type 120 records for output to the SMF data sets.

About this task

For an overview of SMF recording, see Chapter 1 of z/OS® MVS System Management Facilities (SA22-7630)

To enable properties for specific record types, use the administrative console.

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Procedure

  1. Edit the SMFPRMxx parmlib member and update the SYS or SUBSYS(STC,...) statement to include the type 120 record. 
    SUBSYS(STC,EXITS(IEFU29,IEFACTRT),INTERVAL(SMF,SYNC), TYPE(0,30,70:79,88,89,120,245))
  2. Use the SET command to indicate which SMF parmlib member the system should use.
  3. Enable SMF type 120 records.
  4. Format the output data set.

Results

You have successfully enabled SMF recording when the SMF data is recorded in the data set which is specified in SMFPRMxx.