Dumping and deleting data sets

For SMS-managed data sets, ALTER access to the data set lets you delete a data set. If the data set is cataloged in the master catalog, you also need UPDATE access to the catalog.

For non-SMS-managed data sets, you need one of the following to dump and delete a data set:

ALTER access to a protected data set.
READ access to a protected data set and ALTER access to a protected catalog.
UPDATE access to a protected catalog if the data set is unprotected.
DASDVOL-access authority to the volume containing the data set.
Authority to specify DELETE as a DFSMSdss-authorized storage administrator.