Copying only certain members or labels within a file

For database or diskette files, you first specify a generic name on the FROMMBR or FROMLABEL parameter. You then modify the generic name to indicate the starting character string that each member or label has in common, then follow it with an * (asterisk). For example, if you specified FROMMBR(ORD*), the copy command would copy all database members or diskette labels that start with ORD.

Note:

If a generic name is specified for the FROMLABEL parameter on the CPYFRMDKT command and a LABEL parameter value is also specified on an Override Diskette File (OVRDKTF) command, the command copies only the single-file label identifier that you specified on the override. If you copy a generic set from a diskette, and a label that is being copied continues on another diskette volume, then the copy command copies all the affected labels on the continuation volume. This is also true when you copy all labels.