Overview

This chapter describes the DDDL syntax options that are common to all or many DDDL entity-type statements. Because these general options are functionally the same, regardless of the entity to which they apply, the rules presented below are not repeated in the detailed syntax presentations in Chapter 4.

Functions and associated syntax options are shown in the following table.

Function	Syntax option
Identify entity occurrences	NAME and VERSION clauses
Secure entity occurrences	PREPARED BY and REVISED BY clauses AUTHORITY clause (USER statement) USER clause PUBLIC ACCESS clause
Document entity-occurrences	DESCRIPTION clause COMMENTS clause TEXT clause
Manipulate entity-occurrences	SAME AS clause COPY clause EDIT clause
Establish or change entity-occurrence relationships	Relational keys Attribute/entity relationships
Display entity occurrences	DISPLAY/PUNCH statement

These syntax options are described in this chapter.