Controls whether CMS maintains a reference copy of the element. You must have established a reference copy directory. The presence of the reference copy attribute for an element is inherited from the library, that is, if a reference copy directory is established for the library, by default, the attribute is enabled for the element. You can override the reference copy attribute by specifying /NOREFERENCE_COPY. If a reference copy directory has been established for the CMS library, CMS creates a reference copy of the new element and updates the reference copy directory each time you create a new main line generation of that element. When CMS places a file in the reference copy directory, it also deletes any earlier versions of that file in the reference copy directory.