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Defining Entity-Occurrences in the Datadictionary

When you define entity-occurrences in CA Datacom Datadictionary, choose names that are obvious and meaningful to CA Dataquery users. If CA Dataquery user can use an alias in a query without having to know the actual entity-occurrence name. You can define aliases in CA Datacom Datadictionary when you create or add a entity-occurrence, or as maintenance to an existing entity-occurrence. You can use the UPDATE ALIAS line command in online or the 1103 Alias Transaction in batch. See the CA Datacom Datadictionary User Guide for information about assigning aliases.

Always use the description and text columns when defining CA Datacom Datadictionary entity-occurrences that will be accessed by CA Dataquery. The CA Dataquery user can view the description and text to ensure which entity-occurrences he wants to query.