VMS Help CMS, COPY, ELEMENT, Examples  *Conan The Librarian (sorry for the slow response - running on an old VAX)

    (1) CMS> COPY ELEMENT INIT.FOR INITX.FOR "experimental version"
        %CMS-S-COPIED, element DISKX:[PROJECT.CMSLIB]INIT.FOR copied
        to INITX.FOR

      This command creates a new element named INITX.FOR in the same
      library as the old element.

    (2) $ CREATE/DIRECTORY [RELEASE.CMSLIB]
        $ CMS
        CMS> CREATE LIBRARY [RELEASE.CMSLIB] "follows development library"
        %CMS-S-CREATED, CMS Library DISKX:[RELEASE.CMSLIB] created

        CMS> COPY ELEMENT *.*/LIBRARY=[PROJECT.CMSLIB] *.* "loading
        elements"
        %CMS-I-COPIED, element DISKX:[PROJECT.CMSLIB]INIT.FOR copied to
        DISKX:[RELEASE.CMSLIB]INIT.FOR
        %CMS-I-COPIED, element DISKX:[PROJECT.CMSLIB]INITX.FOR copied to
        DISKX:[RELEASE.CMSLIB]INITX.FOR
        %CMS-I-COPIED, element DISKX:[PROJECT.CMSLIB]MSGDOC.FOR copied to
        DISKX:[RELEASE.CMSLIB]MSGDOC.FOR
        %CMS-I-COPIED, element DISKX:[PROJECT.CMSLIB]OUTPUT.FOR copied to
        DISKX:[RELEASE.CMSLIB]OUTPUT.FOR
        %CMS-I-COPIED, element DISKX:[PROJECT.CMSLIB]SEARCH.FOR copied to
        DISKX:[RELEASE.CMSLIB]SEARCH.FOR
        %CMS-I-COPIED, element DISKX:[PROJECT.CMSLIB]ARGCHK.FOR copied to
        DISKX:[RELEASE.CMSLIB]ARGCHK.FOR
        %CMS-S-COPIES, 6 copies completed

        CMS> SHOW HISTORY
        History of CMS Library DISKX:[RELEASE.CMSLIB]
          9-MAY-1988 11:23:43 SMITH CREATE LIBRARY DISKX:[RELEASE.CMSLIB]
                "follows development library"
          9-MAY-1988 11:26:00 SMITH COPY
                ELEMENT/LIBRARY=DISKX:[PROJECT.CMSLIB]
                INIT.FOR INIT.FOR "loading elements"
          9-MAY-1988 11:26:04 SMITH COPY
                ELEMENT/LIBRARY=DISKX:[PROJECT.CMSLIB]
                INITX.FOR INITX.FOR "loading elements"
          9-MAY-1988 11:26:07 SMITH COPY
                ELEMENT/LIBRARY=DISKX:[PROJECT.CMSLIB]
                MSGDOC.FOR MSGDOC.FOR "loading elements"
          9-MAY-1988 11:26:15 SMITH COPY
                ELEMENT/LIBRARY=DISKX:[PROJECT.CMSLIB]
                OUTPUT.FOR OUTPUT.FOR "loading elements"
          9-MAY-1988 11:26:17 SMITH COPY
                ELEMENT/LIBRARY=DISKX:[PROJECT.CMSLIB]
                SEARCH.FOR SEARCH.FOR "loading elements"
          9-MAY-1988 11:26:19 SMITH COPY
                ELEMENT/LIBRARY=DISKX:[PROJECT.CMSLIB]
                ARGCHK.FOR ARGCHK.FOR "loading elements"
        CMS> SHOW GENERATION/DESCENDANTS INIT.FOR
        Element generations in CMS Library DISKX:[RELEASE.CMSLIB]
        INIT.FOR
          2      6-MAR-1988 17:34:04 SMITH "header offset and additional
                     free space added"
          1      6-MAR-1988 17:26:10 SMITH "initialization routines"

      This example creates a new directory for a new library,
      and then copies all of the elements from the library
      [PROJECT.CMSLIB] into the new library [RELEASE.CMSLIB].
      Because the new elements are being created in a separate
      library, CMS can create new elements with the same names as
      the old elements; thus, a null string may be entered for the
      second parameter (for the new element name). In this case,
      CMS supplies the value *.*.

      The SHOW HISTORY command that is executed after the copy
      transaction indicates that the library history contains only
      records of transactions performed on the new library (CREATE
      LIBRARY and COPY transactions). The SHOW GENERATION/DESCENDANTS
      command shows the generation history for one of the elements.
      The COPY ELEMENT transaction preserves the generation history
      for each element; thus, the record of replacement transactions
      (also the CREATE ELEMENT transaction that produced generation 1
      of the element) is maintained from the old element to the new.