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Entity Type Aliases

Each entity type is known by a number of different names, depending on who in the business is using it, and why.

For example, CUSTOMER is known variously as CLIENT, CUST, COOB (Customer Of Our Business), or CONSUMER. Each of these synonyms is recorded as an alias of the entity type.

Each alias is identified as an acronym (like COOB), an abbreviation (like CUST), or neither (like CLIENT and CONSUMER).

CA Gen can also record a long name of up to 50 characters for the alias of an entity type. The long name is typically used only to provide compatibility with data dictionary products that support names longer than the 32-character standard.