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Standard Population Choices

This section is designed to help the analyst, designer or developer make the right choices when choosing the Standard Population and the search and match controls, levels and data to use in the search application.

Standard Populations

MDM - Registry Edition is delivered with over 60 Standard Populations covering different countries, languages and regions.

As new Standard Populations are added regularly, the most current list is that which is shown by the Informatica IR Product Installer.

Before installing MDM - Registry Edition, an analysis should be done of the data that is to be searched and matched. The following questions need to be addressed:

Which country(ies) is it from?

What codepage is it in?

Does it contain mixed scripts?

When installing MDM - Registry Edition, choose the Standard Population(s) that suit the data you will be searching and matching.

An Informatica Corporation consultant can be contacted for assistance with the decision. In many cases the decision will be simple (example, a USA company doing business in the USA alone would choose the USA Standard Population).

All standard populations currently supported by Informatica Corporation are delivered with the MDM - Registry Edition install. However, some require a separate license to use.

If you have selected a Population during the install process that requires a separate license, a license warning screen will be shown prompting verification that the license is held.

Currently, the Standard Populations requiring a separate license are:

The Chinese, Japanese and Korean double-byte populations;

The Arabic Mixed population (supporting bi-directional Arabic / Latin searching and matching)

Population Files Reference

A Primer on Keys and Search Strategies

Managing Population Rule Sets