Use authorities required for optical functions

This topic describes the various levels of user authority and the types of access associated with them.

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 us 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.