Restoring authorization lists

No method exists for restoring an individual authorization list. When you restore an authorization list, authority and ownership are established just as they are for any other object that is restored.

The link between authorization lists and objects is established if the objects are restored after the authorization list. Users' private authorities to the list are restored using the RSTAUT command.

Authorization lists are saved by either the SAVSECDTA command or the SAVSYS command. Authorization lists are restored by the command: 
RSTUSRPRF USRPRF(*ALL)

Recovering from a damaged authorization list

When an authorization list that secures an object becomes damaged, access to the object is limited to users that have all object (*ALLOBJ) special authority.

To recover from a damaged authorization list, two steps are required:

  1. Recover users and their authorities on the authorization list.
  2. Recover the association of the authorization list with the objects.

These steps must be done by a user with *ALLOBJ special authority.