This is a character string that identifies the Multi-Search. It is a mandatory parameter. The name must not match any

Clustering-Definition

nor

Search-Definition

names in the same Project.

This is a text field that is used to describe the Multi-Search’s purpose.

This is a character string that identifies the IDT over which the Multi-Search is to be performed. It is a mandatory parameter.

Multi-Search processing can keep track of the candidate records processed in a particular search to avoid reprocessing them when they are retrieved as candidates in a later search (in the

Search-List

). This is useful and appropriate only if all searches use the same

Score-Logic

. This parameter specifies the number of records that will be remembered. The default value of 0 disables this feature.

A parameter that controls the deduplication process. The

DupFinder

process treats each IDT record as a search record instead of reading search records provided by a client. Normally the search process does not return control to the client until a duplicate is found. This may take a long time if the are very few duplicates in the IDT. This parameter is used to specify the maximum number of IDT records to be processed before returning control to the client process. This gives the client the opportunity to write progress messages. The default value of 0 disables this feature.

A comma separated list of keywords used to control various search options:

FULL-SEARCH
specifies that a Multi-Search is to process all searches in the list rather then returning on the first search that returns some data.