MatchConfiguration

Includes a matching rule and and its properties. Use multiple MatchConfiguration sections within the MatchRuleSet section to configure multiple rules.

You can set the following properties for a matching rule:

• MatchRuleID. Unique name for the match rule. The name cannot exceed 14 characters.
• AutoMergeInd. Indicates whether to merge the matching records manually or automatically. Set to Yes for automatic merging, and set to No for manual merging.

Purpose

Type of purpose that you want to use for matching. You can use one of the following standard SSA-NAME3 purposes:

• Address. Identifies an address match.
• Contact. Identifies a contact within an organization at a specific location.
• Division. Identifies an organization at an address.
• Fields. Identifies generic data.
• Household. Identifies individuals with same or similar family names who share the same address.
• Individual. Identifies a specific individual by name, ID, or date of birth.
• Organization. Identifies an organization by name.
• Person_Name. Identifies a person by name.
• Resident. Identifies a person at an address.
• Wide_Contact. Identifies a contact within an organization.

MatchLevel

Optional. Level of matching that you want to perform. Use one of the following values:

• Typical. Returns more results that the conservative match level and less results than the loose match level.
• Conservative. Returns almost accurate results, and you can use in environments where the accuracy of a match is important.
• Loose. Returns matches with more variations than typical match, and you can use in environments where you can manually review the results.

Default is Typical.

Threshold

Minimum score that SSA-NAME3 requires to consider a record as a matching candidate.

MatchField

Maps the SSA-NAME3 fields with the input record fields and sets the properties for each field. You can set the following properties for each field:

• name. Indicates the SSA-NAME3 field for the input record field.
• type. Indicates the type of matching to perform on the field. Set to Fuzzy to perform fuzzy matching, and set to Exact to perform exact matching on the field values.
• segment_ind. Optional. Indicates whether you want to enable segment matching. Set to 1 to enable segment matching and 0 to disable segment matching. Default is 0.
• segment_val. Optional. Indicates the value based on which you want to perform segment matching. Specify the segment_val parameter only when you enable segment matching.
• null_ind. Optional. Indicates how to handle null values during the matching process. Set to 0 if you do not want to match a null value against any value. Set to 1 to consider two null values as a match. Set to 2 to consider a null value and a non-null value as a match. Default is 0.
• anti_ind. Optional. Indicates whether you want to perform non-equal matching. A non-equal matching returns a successful match only when the records do not match. Set to 1 to enable non-equal matching and set to 0 to disable non-equal matching. Default is 0.

AdditionalControl

Optional. Additional attributes that you want to specify. You can specify the following attributes:

• NAMEFORMAT=L|R. Indicates whether the major word in a name or address is on the left end or the right end. For example, in Western names, the family name is on the right end of the names.
• UNICODE_ENCODING. Specifies the Unicode format of the data that you use.

<MatchRuleSet>
   <MatchConfiguration MatchRuleID="Rule1" AutoMergeInd="yes">
      <Purpose>Fields</Purpose>
      <MatchLevel>Conservative</MatchLevel>
      <Threshold>70</Threshold>
      <MatchField>
         <MField name="SSN_Ex" type="Exact" segment_ind="1" segment_val="M" null_ind="2" anti_ind="0">PersonSSN</MField>
         <MField name="Person_Name2" type="Fuzzy" segment_ind="0" null_ind="0" anti_ind="0">PersonFirstName</MField>
         <MField name="Person_Name3" type="Fuzzy" segment_ind="0" null_ind="0" anti_ind="0">PersonLastName</MField>
         <MField name="Address_Part1" type="Fuzzy" segment_ind="0" null_ind="0" anti_ind="0">ShippingAddress</MField>
         <MField name="Zipcode_Ex" type="Exact" segment_ind="0" null_ind="0" anti_ind="0">ShippingPostalCode</MField>
      </MatchField>
      <AdditionalControl />
   </MatchConfiguration>
</MatchRuleSet>