Providing data attributes to a storage manager to use to select a storage tier to use for a data set management operation

A computer program product for communicating with a storage controller managing storage tiers of storage devices, wherein each storage tier of storage devices has storage devices with different storage attributes, to perform data set management operations, wherein the computer program product comprising a computer readable storage medium having computer readable program code embodied therein that executes to perform operations, the operations comprising:

• determining data attributes of a data set for which a data set management operation is to be performed based on an application intended usage of the data set;
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• sending the determined data attributes and a data set management command to the storage controller to cause the storage controller to use the determined data attributes to select one of the storage tiers of storage devices for performing the data set management operation specified by the data set management command.