All Countries

Austria, Germany, and Switzerland

If you set the Casing property to UPPER, the transformation returns the German character ß as ẞ. If you set the Casing property to LOWER, the transformation returns the German character ẞ as ß.
The transformation treats ẞ and ß as equally valid characters in an address. In reference data matches, the transformation can identify a perfect match when the same values contain either ẞ or ß.
The transformation treats ẞ and ss as equally valid characters in an address. In reference data matches, the transformation can identify a standardized match when the same values contain either ẞ or ss.
If you set the Preferred Script property to ASCII_SIMPLIFIED, the transformation returns the character ẞ as S.
If you set the Preferred Script property to ASCII_EXTENDED, the transformation returns the character ẞ as SS.

Bolivia

Address validation to street level.
Geocoordinates at street mid-point level for addresses in major cities.

Canada

Support for the Global Preferred Descriptor property in Canada Addresses

Effective in version 10.2 HotFix 1, you can configure the transformation to return the short or long form of an element descriptor.

Address Verification can return the short or long form of the following descriptors:

Street descriptors
Directional values
Building descriptors
Sub-building descriptors

To specify the output format for the descriptors, configure the Global Preferred Descriptor property on the transformation. The property applies to English-language and French-language descriptors. By default, the transformation returns the descriptor in the format that the reference data specifies. If you select the PRESERVE INPUT option on the property, the Preferred Language property takes precedence over the Global Preferred Descriptor property.

Support for CH and CHAMBER as Sub-Building Descriptors

Effective in version 10.2 HotFix 1, Address Validator transformation recognizes CH and CHAMBER as sub-building descriptors in Canada addresses.

Colombia

The Address Validator transformation can verify the address with and without the cross street descriptor DIAGONAL.
The transformation can verify the address with and without a dash symbol between the cross street number and the house number. The transformation does not include a dash symbol in this position in the output address.
The transformation can recognize the # symbol before the cross street number in an input address. The transformation recognizes the address as a reference data match and not a correction.
For example, address validation recognizes the following input address as a reference data match and omits the # symbol from the verified output address:
AVENIDA 31 #65 29 APTO 1626

France

Informatica improves the supplementary reference data for France.
The Address Validator transformation assigns addresses to IRIS units in France with greater accuracy. The transformation uses the house number in the address to verify the IRIS unit to which the address belongs. The use of house numbers can improve the assignment accuracy when the address lies close to the border between different units.

India

Peru

South Africa

Address Verification recognizes Private Bag, Cluster Box, Post Office Box, and Postnet Suite as different types of delivery service. Address Verification does not standardize one delivery service descriptor to another. For example, Address Verification does not standardize Postnet Suite to Post Office Box.
Address Verification parses Postnet Box as a non-standard delivery service descriptor and corrects Postnet Box to the valid descriptor Postnet Suite.
Address Verification does not standardize the sub-building descriptor Flat to Fl.

South Korea

The South Korea address reference data includes building information. The transformation can read, verify, and correct building information in a South Korea address.
The transformation returns all of the current addresses at a property that an older address represents. The older address might represent a single current address or it might represent multiple addresses, for example if multiple residences occupy the site of the property.
To return the current addresses, first find the address ID for the older property. When you submit the address ID with the final character A in address code lookup mode, the transformation returns all current addresses that match the address ID.
The Address Validator transformation uses the Max Result Count property to determine the maximum number of addresses to return for the address ID that you enter. The Count Overflow property indicates whether the database contains additional addresses for the address ID.

Sweden

The transformation can recognize a street name that ends in the character G as an alias of the same name with the final characters GATAN.
The transformation can recognize a street name that ends in the character V as an alias of the same name with the final characters VÄGEN.
The Address Validator transformation can recognize and correct a street name with an incorrect descriptor when either the long form or the short form of the descriptor is used.
For example, The transformation can correct RUNIUSV or RUNIUSVÄGEN to RUNIUSGATAN in the following address:
RUNIUSGATAN 7
SE-112 55 STOCKHOLM

Thailand

Improvements to Thailand Addresses

The transformation improves the parsing and validation of Thailand addresses in a Latin script.

Additionally, the transformation validates an address to house number level.

Native Support for Thailand Addresses

The Address Validator transformation can read and write Thailand addresses in native Thai and Latin scripts. Informatica updates the reference data for Thailand and adds reference data in the native Thai script.

Informatica provides separate reference databases for Thailand addresses in each script. To verify addresses in the native Thai script, install the native Thai databases. To verify addresses in a Latin script, install the Latin databases.

If you verify Thailand addresses, do not install both database types. Accept the default option for the Preferred Script property.

United Arab Emirates

United Kingdom

United States