COBOL users who have condition names defined for fields in Predict can use this option. Adabas Pre-Compiler takes the default (Y or N) from the COBOL generation defaults in Predict. You can change the default by using the @OPTIONS statement or in the @ADADCL options, providing that the database administrator allows such a change.

If COND-NAME=Y, Adabas Pre-Compiler takes the conditions names and values from Predict and generates the 88 constants in the record buffer. Note that the keyword SUFFIX88 is not applicable here, because Adabas Pre-Compiler uses the same suffix for the field name.