When moving data sets to SMS-managed volumes, you can use the COPY or RESTORE command. You can specify storage and management class names with the STORCLAS and MGMTCLAS keywords. You can also specify output volumes with OUTDDNAME and OUTDYNAM. DFSMSdss passes the class names and volume serial numbers to ACS, which might use them in determining the classes and placement of the data set.

This method of converting data sets to SMS management is similar to moving data sets in an SMS-managed environment as described in Moving SMS-managed data sets.

If you use the COPY or RESTORE command on a data set that is ineligible for SMS management and if a non-SMS-managed volume has been specified in the output volume list, DFSMSdss puts it on a non-SMS-managed volume. However, if you specify STORCLAS and BYPASSACS with the COPY or RESTORE command for a data set that is ineligible for SMS management, the copy or restore operation fails.

For data sets cataloged outside the standard order of search, use the INCAT keyword on the COPY or DUMP command to identify what catalog to search. Use the SELECTMULTI keyword on the COPY or DUMP command to convert multivolume data sets. This allows you to specify only the volume with the primary component on the LOGINDD or LOGINDY parameter. You can use the SPHERE keyword on the COPY DUMP/RESTORE command to convert entire VSAM spheres (if you use SPHERE on the RESTORE command, you must specify it on the corresponding dump as well).

Note that neither the COPY nor the RESTORE command invokes the data class ACS routine, so no data class is assigned. To cause the data class ACS routine to be invoked, create a new dataset either with the IDCAMS DEFINE command or a JCL DD statement with DISP=(NEW,CATLG).