Sets the minimum length for an abbreviated match.

Refer to the

Local Options Addressing Truncation & Initials

section for further information.

Sets the Score for an abbreviated match. Refer to the

Local Options Addressing Truncation & Initials

section for further information.

Specifies whether to apply penalty when using the

ABBRSCR

option.

Refer to the

Local Options Addressing Truncation & Initials

section for further information.

Allow Skip words when matching to an acronym.

Refer to the

Local Options Addressing Truncation & Initials

section for further information.

Calculates the average of the original and recalculated Score when

CLIMIT

logic is activated. Refer to the

Local Options Addressing Long Names or Addresses

section for further information.

When using

CATSW

or

CATSS

, this option disables

CATSW

and

CATSS

processing when an Initial to Word match is being processed and the Word is in a

CATSW

or

CATSS

category. Refer to the

Local Options Addressing Word Type

section for further information.

When using

CATSW

or

CATSS

, this option enables a 100% match if the word pair was the same before editing. Refer to the

Local Options Addressing Word Type

section for further information.

When using

CATSW

or

CATSS

, this option forces

CATSW

and

CATSS

processing to be performed even if

MAJMOD

processing is done. Refer to the

Local Options Addressing Word Type

section for further information.

Disable

CLIMIT

logic for words which Score above the

CHARDS

limit. Refer to the

Local Options Addressing Long Names or Addresses

section for further information.

Allow both initial and multiple concatenations. Refer to the

Local Options Addressing Concatenation

section for further information.

Allow concatenation of initials. Refer to the

Local Options Addressing Concatenation

section for further information.

Allow multiple concatenations. Refer to the

Local Options Addressing Concatenation

section for further information.

Used by specialised code scoring option. Refer to the

Local Options Addressing Matching of Codes

section for further information.

Used by specialised code scoring option. Refer to the

Local Options Addressing Matching of Codes

section for further information.

Used by specialised code scoring option. Refer to the

Local Options Addressing Matching of Codes

section for further information.

Used by specialised code scoring option. Refer to the

Local Options Addressing Matching of Codes

section for further information.

Used by specialised code scoring option. Refer to the

Local Options Addressing Matching of Codes

section for further information.

Allow concatenated matches. Refer to the

Local Options Addressing Concatenation

section for further information.

Specifies the penalty for number of words matched by

CATSWEXT,2

.

For more information about the

CSWEXOPN

option, see the

Local Options Controlling Word Score

section.

Indicates whether to disable matching the specified pairs of words even though they are similar. Refer to the

Local Options Addressing Word Type

section for further information.

Ignores

CATSW

and

CATSS

option if an exact match exists after formatting. Refer to the

Local Options Addressing Word Type

section for further information.

Causes exact word matches to be retained and not optimized. Refer to the

Local Options Addressing Word Type and Local Options Addressing Truncation & Initials

sections for further information.

Causes exact initial matches to be retained and not optimized. Refer to the

Local Options Addressing Truncation & Initials

section for further information.

Codes must match exactly. Refer to the

Local Options Addressing Word Type

section for further information.

Specifies whether the value of the

SKIPSMOD

option should be applied or not for two skip words that match exactly.

For more information about the

EXCTSMOD

option, see the

Local Options Controlling Word Score

section.

Used by specialised code scoring option. Refer to the

Local Options Addressing Matching of Codes

section for further information.

Turn off

FORMATTING-OPTIONS #9

, concatenation of initials. Refer to the

Local Options Addressing Truncation & Initials

section for further information.

Specifies the Word Score that needs to be achieved for a user-defined Score to be returned. Refer to the

Local Options Controlling Reference Record Matching

section for further information.

Lowers the Score if one or more words match and there are no initial matches. Refer to the

Local Options Addressing Truncation & Initials

section for further information.

Specifies whether the

REFN

option should change the score. Refer to the

Local Options Controlling Reference Record Matching

section for further information.

Controls how an initial matches against the first letter of a word. Refer to the

Local Options Addressing Truncation & Initials

section for further information.

Prevents codes acting as initials. Refer to the

Local Options Addressing Truncation & Initials

section for further information.

Disables

INIT

when the non-initial words do not match. Refer to the

Local Options Addressing Truncation & Initials

section for further information.

Allows the maximum Weight of a word defined by

CATSW

to be less than 10. Refer to the

Local Options Addressing Word Type

section for further information.

Allows the Score for major word matches to be increased or decreased. Refer to the

Local Options Addressing Word Order

section for further information.

Specifies whether the

REFN

option should change the score if major words in each record did not match. Refer to the

Local Options Controlling Reference Record Matching

section for further information.

Allows a string match (raw compare) to resync at the last character. Refer to the

Local Options Addressing Spelling

section for further information.

Maximum number of words allowed when matching to an acronym. Refer to the

Local Options Addressing Truncation & Initials

section for further information.

Minimum number of words allowed when matching to an acronym. Refer to the

Local Options Addressing Truncation & Initials

section for further information.

Allows finer control over

MAJMOD

. Refer to the

Local Options Addressing Word Type

section for further information.

Used by specialised code scoring option. Refer to the

Local Options Addressing Matching of Codes

section for further information.

Used by specialised code scoring option. Refer to the

Local Options Addressing Matching of Codes

section for further information.

Used by specialised code scoring option. Refer to the

Local Options Addressing Matching of Codes

section for further information.

Used by specialised code scoring option. Refer to the

Local Options Addressing Matching of Codes

section for further information.

Disables stabilized matching of the codes. Refer to the

Local Options Addressing Word Type

section for further information.

Specify a list of Word-types to be used in

NOEXCESS

processing to give improved matching on concatenated words. Refer to the

Local Options Controlling Reference Record Matching

section for further information.

In

CLIMIT

processing, reduce the score by a value dependent on the difference in the number of tokens between the two

CLIMLIST

stacks. Refer to the

Local Options Addressing Long Names or Addresses

section for further information.

Does not exempt the punctuations and noise words. Applies the specified penalty when two records match exactly after the cleaning process deletes the punctuations and noise words. Refer to the

Local Options Addressing Long Names or Addresses

section for further information.

Does not exempt the noise words. Applies the specified penalty when two records match exactly after the cleaning and formatting process deletes the noise words. Optionally, use this option in conjunction with

NOEXMPEN

option. Refer to the

Local Options Addressing Long Names or Addresses

section for further information.

Use the original Score if the new Score is greater than the original Score when

CLIMIT

logic is activated. Refer to the

Local Options Addressing Long Names or Addresses

section for further information.

Disable Score reduction when words match out of order. Refer to the

Local Options Addressing Word Order

section for further information.

Disable raw string matching. Refer to the

Local Options Addressing Spelling

section for further information.

Controls whether a Score higher than the original Score can be returned from an acronym match. Refer to the

Local Options Addressing Truncation & Initials

section for further information.

Disable stabilized word matching. Refer to the

Local Options Addressing Spelling

section for further information.

Controls what action to take when

CLIMIT

logic is activated and no new Score can be achieved. Refer to the

Local Options Addressing Long Names or Addresses

section for further information.

Switches off initial/word matching optimization when using

INITLOW

. Refer to the

Local Options Addressing Truncation & Initials

section for further information.

Enables the edit-list category options

CATSW

and

CATSS

for matching original words. For more information about

CATSW

and

CATSS

options, refer to the

Local Options Addressing Word Type

section.

Option allows comparing the original word as well as edit list replacement. Refer to the

Local Options Addressing Concatenation

section for further information.

Replaces all vowels in the word with

A

and deletes identical contiguous consonants in the word. It also matches contiguous identical vowels or consonants or both vowels and consonants.

For more information about the

ORIGWMIN

option, see the

Local Options Addressing Spelling

section.

Allows the Score to be re-calculated on each unformatted word and sets the maximum Score. Refer to the

Local Options Addressing Spelling

section for further information.

Score threshold below which

ORIGWSCR

matching is allowed. Refer to the

Local Options Addressing Spelling

section for further information.

This allows part of the acronym to match and a score to be computed relative to the number of initials that matched. Refer to the

Local Options Addressing Truncation & Initials

section for further information.

Decrements the Score by the

PENALTY

value for excess words when using the

CONCINIT

option. Refer to the

Local Options Addressing Truncation & Initials

section for further information.

Decrements the Score by the

PENALTY

value for excess words when using

NOEXCESS

option. Refer to the

Local Options Controlling Reference Record Matching

section for further information.

Compares first and last words and applies the specified penalty if they are different. Refer to the

Local Options Addressing Word Order

section for further information.

Used to apply finer control to the

PER

option (above). Refer to the

Local Options Addressing Word Order

section for further information.

Allows for a trailing ’S’ on one of the pair of words so as to match 100%. Refer to the

Local Options Addressing Concatenation

section for further information.

Set the decrement for out of position processing. Refer to the

Local Options Addressing Word Order

section for further information.

Performs a raw compare of concatenated words. Refer to the

Local Options Addressing Concatenation

section for further information.

Causes raw string compares to be calculated out of 100 instead of 10. Refer to the

Local Options Addressing Spelling

section for further information.

Increases the score by a factor based on the raw and stabilized scores. Refer to the

Local Options Addressing Spelling

section for further information.

Value used in the

RAWSTBTH

calculation. Refer to the

Local Options Addressing Spelling

section for further information.

Causes re-calculation of

REFMIN/REFMAX

based on the word types in

CLIMLIST

. Refer to the

Local Options Addressing Long Names or Addresses

section for further information.

Specifies the number of words that must be present to trigger a bonus penalty to be applied via

REFMULT

. Refer to the

Local Options Controlling Reference Record Matching

section for further information.

Applies

REFMULT

logic only if the file record meets the

REFCNT

condition. Refer to the

Local Options Controlling Reference Record Matching

section for further information.

A multiplier for the

NOEXCESS PENALTY

when

REFCNT

&

REFF/REFS

conditions are met. Refer to the

Local Options Controlling Reference Record Matching

section for further information.

Applies

REFMULT

logic only if the search record meets the

REFCNT

condition. Refer to the

Local Options Controlling Reference Record Matching

section for further information.

Changes the word score scale to be out of 100 instead of out of 10. Refer to the

Local Options Controlling Word Score

section for further information.

Sets the maximum Score allowed for a concatenated match. Refer to the

Local Options Addressing Concatenation

section for further information.

Sets the maximum Score allowed for an acronym match. Refer to the

Local Options Addressing Truncation & Initials

section for further information.

Controls the Score returned by

MAJMOD

when the major word in one name matches well against any word in the other name. Refer to the

Local Options Addressing Word Type

section for further information.

Specifies the user-defined Score to be returned when using the

REFN

option. Refer to the

Local Options Controlling Reference Record Matching

section for further information.

Allows a user-defined Score for Secondary Word matches. Refer to the

Local Options Addressing Multi-valued Fields

section for further information.

Specifies which types of Secondary names should be expanded for matching. Refer to the

Local Options Addressing Multi-valued Fields

section for further information.

Creates secondary phrase names. 0 is the default (off), 1 turns the feature on and 2 creates all secondary names. Refer to the

Local Options Addressing Multi-valued Fields

section for further information.

Allows a user-defined Score for secondary phrase matches. Refer to the

Local Options Addressing Multi-valued Fields

section for further information.

Specify category names for which you want to disable selected secondary phrase rules.

For more information about the

SECPIGNL

option, see the

Local Options Addressing Multi-valued Fields

section.

If this is set to 1, then include original names before secondary phrase rules are applied. Default is 0. Refer to the

Local Options Addressing Multivalued Fields

section for further information.

Set the decrement for out of sequence processing. Refer to the

Local Options Addressing Word Order

section for further information.

If this is set to 1 then words that match 100% are excluded from the

CONCINIT

rescore. Default is 0. Refer to the

Local Options Addressing Truncation & Initials

section for further information.

Allows an exact match early-exit even when

MAJMOD

is specified. Refer to the

Local Options Addressing Word Type s

ection for further information.

Allows the Score for skip word matches to be increased or decreased. Refer to the

Local Options Addressing Word Type

section for further information.

Allows an exact match early-exit even when

SKIPMOD

is specified. Refer to the

Local Options Addressing Word Type

section for further information.

Used by specialised code scoring option. Refer to the

Local Options Addressing Matching of Codes

section for further information.

Specifies the number of skip words that must be present to trigger a bonus penalty to be applied via

SREFMULT

. Refer to the

Local Options Controlling Reference Record Matching

section for further information.

A multiplier for the

NOEXCESS PENALTY

when

SREFCNT

&

REFF/REFS

conditions are met. Refer to the

Local Options Controlling Reference Record Matching

section for further information.

Enables an additional stabilized comparison of secondary name matches. Uses the value set by the

OPTION SCORES, VALUE STD

. Refer to the

Local Options Addressing Spelling

section for further information.

Allows the Score for a stabilized word match to be increased or decreased. Refer to the

Local Options Addressing Spelling

section for further information.

Decrements the match score with a penalty. If SSA-NAME3 uses a stabilized comparison of the word pair and returns the same letter at the beginning of the word pair, use

STDFIPEN

to add a penalty and decrease the match score.

For example, when SSA-NAME3 stabilizes the words KIDS and CADS and returns the word KAD with a 90% match score, you can add

STDFIPEN, 10

to add a penalty and decrease the match score to 80.

Sets the minimum number of characters which must match to enable re-synchronization in a raw string comparison. Refer to the

Local Options Addressing Spelling

section for further information.

Sets the level at which to accept a concatenated match. Refer to the

Local Options Addressing Concatenation

section for further information.

Score threshold below which acronym matching is allowed. Refer to the

Local Options Addressing Truncation & Initials

section for further information.

Sets the threshold Score above which

MAJMOD

processing will take place. Refer to the

Local Options Addressing Word Type

section for further information.

Sets the minimum word length for character transposition matching to be applied. Refer to the

Local Options Addressing Spelling

section for further information.

Decrements the Score if it is greater than or equal to the

TRIGGER

Score. Refer to the

Local Options Controlling Reference Record Matching

section for further information.

Invoke out of order logic if the Score is above the

TRIGGER

value. Refer to the

Local Options Addressing Word Order

section for further information.

Invoke

CLIMIT

logic if the Score is above the

TRIGS

value. Refer to the

Local Options Addressing Long Names or Addresses

section for further information.

Allows the maximum Score of a word pair to be less than 10. Refer to the

Local Options Controlling Word Score

section for further information.

Set the Score for any single word to zero if the raw string word Score is less than a specified value. Refer to the

Local Options Addressing Spelling

section for further information.

Concatenates two words to improve the scores if the value is set to 1 or higher. This option affects the score of a single token and rescores by concatenating two words.

Specifies the number of non-initial words which need to match in order to return a user-defined Score. Refer to the

Local Options Controlling Reference Record Matching

section for further information.

Controls which score should be returned when comparing a repeating group. Refer to the

Local Options Addressing Multi-valued Fields

section for further information.

Defines the amount to reduce the score when comparing a repeating group in which the number of repeats differs between the search and file records. Refer to the

Local Options Addressing Multi-valued Fields

section for further information.

Specifies the Edit-list Category Name to participate in Score reduction. Refer to the

Local Options Addressing Word Type / OPTION CATSW

section for further information.

Specifies the Edit-list Category Name to participate in Score reduction. Refer to the

Local Options Addressing Word Type / OPTION CATSS

section for further information.

Disables an Edit-list Category Name during Matching. Refer to the

Local Options Addressing Word Type / OPTION CATNIGN

section for further information.

Disables an Edit-list Category Type during Matching. Refer to the

Local Options Addressing Word Type / OPTION CATTIGN

section for further information.

Overrides the meaning of an Edit-list Category Name with a different Category Type. Refer to the

Local Options AddressingWord Type / OPTION CATNREP

section for further information.

Overrides the meaning of an Edit-list Category Type with a different Category Type. Refer to the

Local Options Addressing Word Type / OPTION CATTREP

section for further information.

Specifies the Edit-list Category Name to participate in Secondary name matching. Refer to the

Local Options Addressing Multi-valued Fields / OPTION SECCAT

section for further information.

Specifies the Word-type to participate in re-scoring when using

CLIMIT

logic. Refer to the

Local Options Addressing Long Names or Addresses / OPTION CLIMLIST

section for further information.

Specifies the Word-type to participate in Secondary name matching. Refer to the

Local Options Addressing Multi-valued Fields / OPTION SECTYPE

section for further information.