The Word Stabilization Service provides access to an SSA-NAME3 Word Stabilization routine. There are different Word Stabilization routines provided for different languages, to address the phonetic and orthographic error of names in that language.

The main objective of the SSA-NAME3 Word Stabilization routine is to take a word and apply character or string replacement rules of a phonetic or orthographic nature. These rules are less physical than the rules applied by the Character Set tables, and less word-specific than the rules applied by the Editlist.

The Word Stabilization rules themselves are not user-controlled, rather Informatica Corporation provides a predefined routine containing the rules for the language required.

The Word Stabilization Service is always invoked internally by the

NAMESET

Service as part of the preparation for key building. It may also be called by the

MATCH

Service as part of the matching process. The Word Stabilization Service could be called directly by an Application if the requirement was to stabilize a word before that word was used for some other purpose.