The

MatchingScope

parameter defines the level of granularity to which

Informatica Address Verification

validates an address. The

MatchingAlternatives

parameter specifies whether to consider alternate names while validating an address.

You can set the

MatchingScope

parameter to specify which address elements that you want

Informatica Address Verification

to validate. You can set the matching scope to locality, street, or delivery-point level. The default value of

MatchingScope

is ALL so that

Informatica Address Verification

validates all possible elements including locality, street, and delivery-point elements in the input address. You receive the best results if you set

MatchingScope

to ALL as

Informatica Address Verification

validates all possible elements. If you do not want

Informatica Address Verification

to consider some of the address elements for validation, you can set

MatchingScope

to a value other then ALL.

If the reference address database does not contain the specified level of information,

Informatica Address Verification

validates only those elements that the database contains.

You can configure

Informatica Address Verification

to validate address elements based on synonyms or alternate names that are available in the reference address database. Synonyms of an address element include alternate names of a place or a street. For example, vanity names in the U.S. addresses. The archival name of an address element refers to an outdated name of a place or street.

To match input address elements with synonyms or archival names that are available in the reference address database, set

MatchingAlternatives

to SYNONYMS_ONLY, ARCHIVES_ONLY, or ALL. The default value of

MatchingAlternatives

is ALL. You can set

MatchingAlternatives

to NONE if you do not want

Informatica Address Verification

to consider synonyms or archival names when it validates an address.

You can set one of the following values for

MatchingScope

:

You can include the

MatchingAlternatives

parameter to specify whether Address Verification considers alternative data values in the reference data when it compares the input data to the reference data. Alternative data values include historical names, synonyms, and exonyms.

You can set one of the following values for

MatchingAlternatives

:

ALL
ARCHIVES_ONLY
NONE
SYNONYMS_ONLY

Note that the actual scope of address verification is dependent on the corresponding country database.