The access authority you need to restore a data set from an input dump data set depends on many factors not controlled by DFSMSdss because access-authorization checking to the input dump data set is performed by O/C/EOV processing. The primary considerations are as follows:

• You need at least READ access to the dump data set if the dump data set is protected.
• You may need READ access to the catalog if the dump data set is cataloged.
• You may have sufficient authority to the dump data set if you have the system-OPERATIONS attribute.
• You also need access authority to the source and target data sets and their catalogs as shown in Table 1.