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Reading Tapes Owned by Others

If you do not own the tape you want to read, see Mounting Another User ID’s Tapes. This section lists the information you must specify (for example, volser, data set name) to mount a tape that belongs to another user ID. You must specify volser or data set information about the LABELDEF on the SYSPARM parameter of the FILEDEF command.

Unless you have ANYTAPE authorization, you cannot write a new file to a tape you do not own. If you need to write to a tape that belongs to another user, the CA VM:Tape tape librarian or another authorized user must first make you the owner of the tape.

This EXEC reads the data set RESEARCH.DEPARTMENT.DATA from tape and writes it to the file RESEARCH DATA on your A disk. The EXEC prompts for the volser of the required tape.