Restrictions for restore processing

You can restore a sphere only if all parts of the sphere resolve to the same catalog.
You may not need to rename all the parts in the VSAM sphere as you would with the copy function.
Multiple path names to an alternate index are not supported. Only the last path name listed in the catalog is preserved.
When restoring a sphere with one or more alternate indexes missing from the dump tape, DFSMSdss issues a message to indicate that the sphere was incompletely restored.