General DDDL Syntax Options › Identifying Entity Occurrences › NAME Clause

NAME Clause

Each entity-type statement must include a name that identifies the object entity occurrence in the dictionary. This name clause:

• Follows the verb and entity-type name
• Precedes all optional clauses

Syntax

NAME Clause

►►─── NAMe is entity-occurrence-name ─────────────────────────────────────────►◄

Parameters

NAMe is

Identifies either a new entity occurrence to be added to the dictionary or an existing entity occurrence to be modified, replaced, deleted, displayed, or punched.

entity-occurrence-name

Uniquely identifies the object entity in the dictionary; if the name includes embedded blanks or delimiters, it must be enclosed in site-standard quote characters. If the specified name is not unique, it must be qualified by a version number (and/or additional qualifier).

Note: For more information, see VERSION Clause and Additional Qualifiers.

Example

In the following statement, the NAME clause assigns the name PAYROLL to an occurrence of the SYSTEM entity type.

add system name is payroll.