Copy Optical File (CPYOFRDAR)

The Copy Optical File (CPYOFRDAR) command copies a database file member to an optical file. Copy operations can be done from a physical or logical database member. You may copy data to a physical or logical optical file. No mapping of fields between the files is done by the copy operation. Therefore the data in both files must have the same field layouts and types. Records are always added to any existing records in the optical file.

Note: File overrides are not supported by this command.

Parameters

Keyword	Description	Choices	Notes
FROMFILE	From database file	Qualified object name	Required, Positional 1
	Qualifier 1: From database file	Name
	Qualifier 2: Library	Name, LIBL, CURLIB
TOFILE	To optical file	Qualified object name	Optional, Positional 2
	Qualifier 1: To optical file	Name, *FROMFILE
	Qualifier 2: Library	Name, LIBL, CURLIB
FROMMBR	From database file member	Name, *FIRST	Optional, Positional 3

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From database file (FROMFILE)

Specifies the name of the database file from which records are copied (the source database file).

This is a required parameter.

Qualifier 1: From database file

name: Specify the name of the source database file.

Qualifier 2: Library

*LIBL: All libraries in the job's library list are searched until the first match is found.
*CURLIB: The current library for the job is where the file is located. If no library is specified as the current library for the job, QGPL is used.
name: Specify the name of the library where the source database file is located.

To optical file (TOFILE)

Specifies the name of the optical file to which records are copied (the target optical file).

Qualifier 1: To optical file

*FROMFILE: The name of the target optical file is the same as the name of the source database file as specified on the FROMFILE parameter.
name: Specify the name of the target optical file.

Qualifier 2: Library

*LIBL: All libraries in the job's library list are searched until the first match is found.
*CURLIB: The current library for the job is where the file is located. If no library is specified as the current library for the job, QGPL is used.
name: Specify the name of the library where the target optical file is located.

From database file member (FROMMBR)

Specifies the database member in the from-file that is being copied.

*FIRST: The first member in the database from-file is copied.
member-name: Specify the name of the database from-file member to copy.