You can use the command-line commands to search for matching records in the repository based on the matching criteria that you specify in the configuration file or the matching rules file. Use the JSON format to specify the input parameters, and the command-line commands return the results in the JSON format.
Perform the Get Multisearch Layout operation.
The Get Multisearch Layout operation gets the required fields based on the matching rules file. You must specify the required fields as the input parameters in the JSON format when you search for the matching records.
Perform the Multisearch operation.
The Multisearch operation searches for the matching records based on the searching and matching criteria that you specify in the matching rules file. Use the search layout that the Get Multisearch Layout operation returns to specify the input parameters for the Multisearch operation.
To get a list of records that are part of a cluster, perform the following tasks:
Perform the Get Cluster Layout operation to get the required fields based on the configuration file.
You must specify the required fields as the input parameters in the JSON format to get the list of records that are part of a cluster.
Perform the Get Cluster operation to get the list of other records that are part of the same cluster to which the specified record belongs.
To get the preferred record of a cluster, perform the following tasks:
Run the Get Preferred Record Layout operation. The operation returns the layout details that you can use to specify the input parameters for the Get Preferred Record operation.
Run the Get Preferred Record operation. The operation returns the preferred record for the specified cluster or generates the preferred record for the specified cluster in the run time.
To search for the matching records and get the preferred records for the matching records, perform the following tasks:
Run the Get Multisearch Layout operation. The operation returns the layout details that you can use to specify the input parameters for the Preferred Record Search operation.
Run the Preferred Record Search operation. The operation gets the matching records for the input data and uses the cluster numbers of the matching records to get the preferred records of the clusters.