You can remove the locality and province descriptors from China and Japan addresses if you set the following validation parameters:

You can retrieve rooftop geocoordinates for an United Kingdom address even when the input address does not contain a house number. Informatica AddressDoctor Cloud considers rooftop geocoordinates as arrival point geocoordinates.

To receive rooftop geocoordinates for the United Kingdom addresses, you must have GEOCODING transactions in your account and set the following parameters:

The

GeoCodingType

validation parameter to ARRIVAL_POINT.

You can configure Informatica AddressDoctor Cloud to return the locality information in Switzerland address results consistently in French, German, or Italian. In previous releases, Informatica AddressDoctor Cloud returned all information in the Switzerland address results in the main language of the region to which the address belonged. You can configure the

PreferredLanguage

parameter to one of the following values and receive the locality information in the corresponding language:

If you set

PreferredLanguage

to DATABASE, Informatica AddressDoctor Cloud returns the address in the main language of the region to which the address belongs. For example, German in Zurich and French in Geneva.

If you set

PreferredLanguage

to ENGLISH, Informatica AddressDoctor Cloud returns the English name of the locality if it is different from the name in the local language. Informatica AddressDoctor Cloud returns the other address elements in the main language of the region to which the address belongs. Note that English locality names are available only for Zurich addresses.

If you set

PreferredLanguage

to PRESERVE_INPUT, Informatica AddressDoctor Cloud returns the address in the same language in which you input the address. Note that Informatica AddressDoctor Cloud preserves the language only if the reference data is available in the same language that you used for the input. If the input address contains more than one language, Informatica AddressDoctor Cloud returns the output in the main language of the region.

Additionally, Informatica AddressDoctor returns the Street information for addresses in Biel/Bienne in the alternative language that you configured for the

PreferredLanguage

parameter.

You can validate Bulgaria addresses in the Cyrillic script. By default, you receive the validated results in the Cyrillic script. To receive the results in the Latin script, set the

PreferredScript

parameter to ASCII_EXTENDED, ASCII_SIMPLIFIED, LATIN, LATIN_1, or LATIN_ALT.

The other enhancements to Bulgaria address validation include high-quality reference address data and improved parsing of locality information in Bulgaria address.

You can validate Slovakia addresses with the following street name abbreviations:

SNP. Slovak National Uprising
ČSA. Czechoslovak Army
arm. Army
gen. General
kpt. Captain
mjr. Major
nár. National
národ. National
nám. Square
nábr. Waterfront
Máj. The May
pov. Uprising
povst. Uprising
čes. Czech