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 COPYVAR allows you to copy/set the value of one ISPF pool variable to another
 and store it in a specified pool.  For instance, if you have variable XYZ with
 value "aaaaaa", and you specify the following:

 TSO COPYVAR XYZ ABC PROFILE

 A variable by the name of ABC will be store/updated in the current profile pool
 with the value "aaaaaa".

 A practical application of this is with the LABLPROF edit macro.  LABLPROF
 stores its lable profile in a variable of the same name as the member it refers
 to.  If you have an elaborate edit label profile stored for some COBOL program,
 and you copy it to a new member name to clone it for more use, you can use
 COPYVAR to copy the label profile without having to re-create it in the new
 member.

 For instance, say you have a label profile stored for COBOL program SLSOLD and
 you want to create a program called SLSNEW starting with SLSOLD.  you could
 copy SLSOLD's label profile with the following command:

TSO COPYVAR SLSOLD SLSNEW PROFILE