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Writing and Reading Foreign Tapes

Foreign tapes are those not defined in the CA VM:Tape TMC or those explicitly identified as foreign by the FOREIGN option on the SYSPARM parameter. You can read or write foreign tapes using OS simulation.

When you use foreign tapes during OS simulation, you must explicitly identify the tapes CA VM:Tape is to mount. If you are writing a data set to foreign tapes, you must specify enough volsers to hold the entire data set. If you are reading from foreign tapes, you must specify the volsers in the order in which CA VM:Tape is to mount them.