Copy instance (CPY)

The command copies a single instance or a collection of instances from the current collection to the referenced collection. Copying an instance will change the selections for all subsequent collections in the target hierarchy.

Parameters:

• key_value - key value for the instance to be copied (ordered collection). Key components have to be separated by '|'. When the key value contains special characters, it has to be quoted.

• position - position of instance to be copied

• . - cpoy instance currently selected in the collection
• * - copy all instances filtered in the current colletion (--> sfc)
• new_key - copy and rename instance of an ordered collection (copy single instance, only

• -Dn - target data source for copy. When no target is defined, the instance is copied to the current data source (e.g. rename)

• -Cn - target collection for copy. When no target collection is passed the instance is copied to the current collection in the referenced data source (-Dn)