Passing Accounting Parameters to Your Subsystem

SMF allows your subsystem to receive a set of accounting parameters through the use of the SUBPARM option in the SMF parmlib member (SMFPRMxx). Some examples of parameters you can receive are:

Record type number for SMF records
Recording interval time
Level of SMF recording (high, medium, low, or none).

The syntax of the option allows the installation to specify a subsystem name and a set of parameter values (up to 60 characters in length) that are associated with that subsystem.

See z/OS MVS Initialization and Tuning Reference for more information on the SMF parmlib member and the SUBPARM option.