Service Group Definition and Customization Guide

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Services

SSA-NAME3 works by providing ’Services’ to Application programs. The two main Services are for Key Building and for Matching. Other services provide special functionality, and there are also informational and debugging services.

Some Services must be linked to Algorithms as this allows the Service to be customized for a particular population of names. Other Services do not require Algorithms, or are linked to them elsewhere.

The lists below show the SSA-NAME3 Services by type, plus a brief description of each, and their relationship to Algorithms.

Main Services
Type	Description	Algorithm Required?
NAMESET	Name/Address key building for indexing and searching	Yes
MATCH	Matching for all types of data	No – Algorithms for the MATCH Service are specified at a lower level, in the Matching Scheme Definition.

Special Services
Type	Description	Algorithm Required?
TRACE	Identification of attributes of a name or address	Yes
SSACLN	Name/Address Cleaning	Yes
SSAFMT	Name/Address Formatting	Yes
SSASTD	Name/Address Stabilization	Yes
SSAPHO	Generate a binary key for a single word	Yes
SSAPHOC	Generate a character key for a single word	Yes
SSAMAJ	Generate a binary key for the major word in a name or address	Yes
SSAMAJC	Generate a character key for the major word in a name or address	Yes

Informational and Debugging Services
Type	Description	Algorithm Required?
BROWSE	Browse internal data	No
DEBUG	Modify Matching Scheme and Algorithm parameters at run-time.	No – Algorithms are provided by the DEBUG service either at run-time, or via the Matching Scheme Definitions.
INFO	Retrieve internal table definitions/ structures	No

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