Using authorities required for optical functions

Specific authorities are required in order to perform specific optical functions. Refer to the descriptions to determine the level of authority that is needed.

You must have *USE authority to an optical volume to use the following optical functions:

• Open file for read
• Open directory
• Retrieve file or directory attributes
• Read sector
• List paths or files
• Check optical volume for damaged files

You must have *CHANGE authority to an optical volume to use the following optical functions:

• Open for write or read write
• Create or delete directory
• Create, delete, or rename file
• Change file or directory attributes
• Save or release held optical file

You must have *ALL authority to an optical volume to use the following optical functions:

• Initialize volume (requires *CHANGE for DVD-RAM media)
• Rename volume (requires *CHANGE for DVD-RAM media)
• Convert backup volume to primary
• Duplicate optical volume (requires *CHANGE for DVD-RAM media)

You must have *USE authority to the source optical volume and *CHANGE authority to the target optical volume to use the following optical functions:

• Copy file
• Copy directory

You must have *CHANGE authority to the source optical volume and *CHANGE authority to the target optical volume to use the move file function:

You must have *AUTLMGT authority to an optical volume to use the following optical functions:

• Change authorization list used to secure the volume
• Add optical cartridge (if overriding an existing authorization list)

You must have *OBJEXIST authority to the source volume to use save optical volume optical function.

You must have *OBJEXIST authority to the target volume to use the restore optical volume function.