Export FC to new FC with Default Field Values and Null Fields - It's doing what??

ToddPlank2

Is this how Export FC or FC2FC supposed to work?  Very concerning

 

The issue that I ran into is when exporting features from a geodatabase where a field has a default value set and has records that are NULL. What I am seeing is that any records that are NULL will be populated with the Default field value when exported to another geodatabase with ArcPro. I did the same test in ArcMap and NULL values were not populated.

 

Example: Here is a manhole with a field [test] where all the records are NULL

 

In Fields View I set the Default to 123

 

Exporting the feature layer to another feature layer populates that Default value in all the records that are NULL

There is no warning that the records with NULL values will be changing.

 

We ran into this problem while receiving a geodatabase from another source where Default values were set in the records and we exported from those feature layers, thus getting different attribute results in our queries.

ToddPlank2

Esri is responding that this is a Bug and that newer versions of the software are not functioning as described.

I am using 3.0.2.  Esri tested in 3.1.2 and says it works in that version.