The COPY CLASS command uses an existing library class to copy and create a new class in the same library or in another library. The original class is left unchanged. The class attributes are copied in full and an identical set of element generations are inserted into the new class. The elements to be inserted into the new class must already exist in the target library. CMS must be able to create one new class for each old class. When you use wildcards, or a comma list in the input class specification you must specify a wildcard ("*") as the output class specification.