User manual BUSINESS OBJECTS GLOBAL MATCH 7.70C

[. . . ] Global Match Version 7. 70c July 2006 Introducing Global Match . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 Set up and run a Global Match job. . . . . . . . 4 Error messages. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . and Canada: 888-788-9004 elsewhere: +1-608-788-9000 Fax Web Mail 608-788-2870 http://www. firstlogic. com/customer 100 Harborview Plaza La Crosse WI 54601 E-mail customer@firstlogic. com In your correspondence, include your name, company name, telephone number, and customer ID number. [. . . ] The matching intelligence applied is matcher specific. For details about how to set the matcher type, see "Specify the matcher type" on page 9. The following table specifies the possible values for the field type, which Global Match uses to normalize the data before forming a match key. Field type value Description name firm addr pc other Personal name data Firm name data Address data Post code data Use this value when no pre-processing or normalization for the matcher type is required. Edit the Match Keyfield configuration file To edit the Match Keyfield configuration file: 1. Open the Match Keyfield configuration file (gfirm_fld. cfg) in the \pw\ gmatch\samples directory. Set the options for the different keys on which you are matching. Specify the appropriate options like checking for abbreviations, checking for initials, transpositions, and so on. Refer to the documentation in the configuration file for details about each of the options. For those keys on which you do not specify any options, defaults will be used, as specified in the documentation in the file. Set up and run a Global Match job 7 Edit the Match General Configuration file To edit the Match General configuration file: 1. Open the Match General Configuration file (gfirm_gen. cfg) in the \pw\ gmatch\samples directory. Set the options appropriate for your job. Edit the Match Rule Definition configuration file To edit the Match Rule Definition configuration file: 1. Open the Match Rule Definition file (gfirm_rul. cfg) in the \pw\gmatch\ samples directory. Set the rules that the records should pass in order to be considered a match. Refer to the documentation in the configuration file for details. Blank match 8 Global Match Specify the matcher type Global Match works on individual records to apply specific matching intelligence. However, you need to specify the matcher fields, which determine which matcher type to apply. For example: Matcher_Field: Country Code Map the matcher identifier input field values to the matcher type. The identifier text in the matcher field determines which matcher is to be applied. The format for mapping the match identifier is as follows: Matcher: "identifier-text", matcher_type For example: Matcher: "JPN", jp Specify one matcher field value per matcher entry. You can specify up to 32 matcher entries. Use one of the following matcher types: Chinese, Japanese, Korean, and Taiwanese. The table at right lists the values for each of the matcher types. Matcher type Value Japanese Korean jp ko If you know your data can be processed with a Chinese zh single matcher type, you can specify the tw Default_Matcher parameter. If you do not specify Taiwanese any default matcher, all the remaining records that cannot be associated with a particular matcher type specified above will be processed through the generic Unicode matcher. Run Global Match After you set up the input file, the DMT, and the configuration files, you are ready to run the job. Run Global Match in the installation directory as follows: flgmtc mygmtc. cfg Global Match verifies all of the configuration settings, issues any errors or warnings, and displays various informational and progress messages. Analyze the output Output file Global Match creates two types of output files: an output file and a report file. [. . . ] Every Match key must have an associated match key field. Refer to the Match Library Programmer's Reference for valid values of match key field names. You specified matcher values, but did not specify a matcher field. You can specify only 32 matcher values. Missing string value in Matcher Specifi- Matcher specification must contain a cation. [. . . ]