Schema Statements › COPY ELEMENTS Substatement

COPY ELEMENTS Substatement

The COPY ELEMENTS substatement requests inclusion of all elements from a record description already stored in the dictionary. The record description may have been stored through another schema or the IDD DDDL compiler. COPY ELEMENTS can be used in place of ELEMENT substatements to define all of the record's elements or only some of them. When COPY ELEMENTS supplies some of the record's elements, use ELEMENT substatements to supply the rest.

Unlike the SHARE clause of the RECORD statement, COPY ELEMENTS generates a new copy of the record structure for record-name (the object of the ADD or MODIFY).