As previously stated, you can use the COPY command to perform the actual data movement. However, you must determine whether to use logical or physical copy function to move the data. The physical copy function gives you better performance, but the logical copy function allows you to move data to unlike devices.

Initiate a copy operation, logical or physical, at a time of low activity. Logical processing involves copying data sets. Physical processing involves volumes, tracks and the parts of data sets that reside on a particular volume. Logical processing generally takes more time than physical processing.

After DFSMSdss has finished processing, you can verify that the data has moved by looking at the ISMF data set or volume list.