IBM has done some recent work improving SMF efficiency, for example via SMF exploitation of the new zEnterprise Data Compression (zEDC) feature. If you have moderate to heavy SMF activity then I would advise taking a close look at the zEDC feature. (There are other reasons to consider zEDC, too.)
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