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HP SYSTEM DICTIONARY XL SDMAIN

COPY REPORT 

Creates a new report and copies the source report's definition and
description to the new report.

Syntax 

     CO[PY] REP[ORT]  source-report-name 
                     ,target-report-name 
          [;INT[ERNAL] = internal-name]
          .

Parameters 

source-report-name    Name of the report to be copied.

target-report-name    External name of a new report that has the
                      same definition and description as the
                      source-report-name.

internal-name         Internal name of the target report.  If not
                      specified, the internal name is the same as the
                      target-report-name.

Description 

The target report cannot already exist.

Open Mode:       Shared-update or exclusive-update

Scope:           DA or any scope with create capability.  The scope with
                 which the dictionary is open is the owner of the new
                 report.

Example 

The following example creates the new report sales-report and copies the
description and definition from the existing report accounting-report to
the new report.

     >COPY REPORT accounting-report, sales-report. 
     >

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