The example assumes the customer is licensed to use the USA population and has a CUSTOMER database table with the following columns:

To provide search capability on customer names, an application may create SSA-NAME3 keys for the data from CUSTOMER_NAME column with the algorithm that builds keys and search ranges for Person Names. Call SSANAME3 and pass

FIELD=Person_Name

in the Controls parameter of the

get_keys

or

get_ranges

calls to invoke the algorithm. The candidates returned by

get_ranges

are scored using

match

to determine the likelihood of their match with the search data. Depending on purpose of search, various out of the box match purposes may be used.

To provide search capability on customer addresses, an application may create SSA-NAME3 keys for the data from

CUSTOMER_ADDRESS

column with the algorithm that builds keys and search ranges for Addresses. Call SSA-NAME3 and pass

FIELD=Address_Part1

in the Controls parameter of the

get_keys

or

get_ranges

calls to invoke the algorithm. The candidates returned by

get_ranges

are score d by

match

using a match purpose designed to work with Address data.

To provide search capability on organization names, an application may create SSA-NAME3 keys for the data from

CUSTOMER_ORG

column with the algorithm that builds keys and search ranges for Organization Names. Call SSA-NAME3 and pass

FIELD=Organization_Name

in the Controls parameter of the

get_keys

or

get_ranges

calls to invoke the algorithm. The candidates returned by

get_ranges

are scored by

match

using a match purpose designed to work with the Company names data.

If the type of data is not known or if the search needs to include results from either of Customer Name, Customer Address or Customer Company, an application may create SSA-NAME3 keys for the data from

CUSTOMER_NAME

column,

CUSTOMER_ADDRESS

column, and

CUSTOMER_ORG

column with the Algorithm that builds Generic keys and search ranges. Call SSA-NAME3 and pass

FIELD=Generic_Field

in the Controls parameter of the

get_keys

or

get_ranges

calls to invoke the algorithm. The candidates returned by

get_ranges

are scored using

match

to determine the likelihood of their match with the search data. You can use the match purpose

Generic

to work with a combination of person names, addresses, and organization names.