Application and Database Design Guide

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Generic Indexes

SSA-NAME3 can build generic keys and search ranges from Person Names, Addresses and Organization Names. To create generic keys, the application sends a request to SSA-NAME3 and passes

FIELD= Generic_Field

in the Controls parameter of the

get_keys

API. Generic data can contain person names, organization names, addresses, or a combination of these field types. The key building algorithm used by

Generic_Field

overcomes some of the errors and variations that are common across entities such as person names, organization names, and addresses.

Applications may pass multiple Generic Fields such as names and addresses in the one call to SSA-NAME3.

Generic_Field

is normally used to create homogeneous keys for various types of data. A single index table can then be used to store the keys. The application may implement a generic search with the help of such an index, where the type of data is not available.

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