User manual BUSINESS OBJECTS MOVER ID 5.0 NCOA LINK

[. . . ] Mover ID User's Guide for NCOALink® Mover ID 5. 0 November 2008 Contact information Copyright information USPS information Find contact information on the Web at http://service. sap. com. Business Objects is a non-exclusive Interface Distributor Licensee of the United States Postal Service. The following trademarks are owned by the United States Postal Service: USPS, CASS, Standard Mail, First-Class Mail, DPV, LACSLink, NCOALink, and United States Postal Services. 2 Mover ID User's Guide Contents Preface. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 Documentation. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . [. . . ] If your contact received the list from a different broker, then enter 2 for this contact. Enter the broker's or list administrator's numeric North American Industry Classification System code, which identifies the business that they engage in. For more information, see: http://www. census. gov/epcd/www/naics. html Enter the date when this contact signed the PAF. ACE_MID_CONTACT_LEVEL NCOALink Contact NAICS ACE_MID_CONTACT_SIC NCOALink Date Signed PAF ACE_MID_DATE_BROKER_SIGNED_PAF ACE_MID_DATE_ADMIN_SIGNED_PAF 34 Mover ID User's Guide Views or job option Library setting_ID Description Contact Name Contact Address Contact City Contact State Code Contact Zip Contact Plus 4 Code Contact Telephone Number ACE_MID_CONTACT_NAME ACE_MID_CONTACT_ADDRESS ACE_MID_CONTACT_CITY ACE_MID_CONTACT_STATE ACE_MID_CONTACT_ZIP ACE_MID_CONTACT_ZIP4 ACE_MID_CONTACT_PHONE Enter the broker's or list administrator's: name complete address phone number Chapter 2: Move-updating in ACE 35 Memory usage Save time You can reduce the time required for NCOALink processing by using several ACE options to control memory usage: Load directories into memory Cache for ZIP order processing Windows caching options (for Windows operating system, ACE Views and jobfile only) See "Improving NCOALink performance" on page 69 for a complete explanation of NCOALink processing speed and what you can do to improve it. Load directories into memory You can load NCOALink directories into system memory before processing. Your system may not be able to load the entire set of NCOALink files into system memory because NCOALink requires large directories and supporting files. However, you can control memory usage with the NCOALink memory options. To maximize performance, allocate as much memory as possible, up to 3GB. Even 200 MB can provide a large boost in performance. The amount of memory that you can allocate is limited only by the amount of memory available on your computer. The USPS recommends that you have at least 1. 5GB free while performing NCOALink processing. Ideally, there would be 3GB available. Cache for ZIP order processing To improve NCOALink processing speed when your input data is in ZIP Code order, select the Cache for ZIP Order Processing option. With this option selected, one or more segments of the NCOALink data are cached on your computer. A segment of data is temporarily saved in the computer's RAM until that segment of data has been processed. Then the next segment is loaded into RAM and the previous segment is removed from RAM. To place your data in ZIP Code order, you have several options: Use a program such as FirstPrep to place the data in ZIP Code order before you process the data with ACE. Turn on the Sort Input File by ZIP Code option in ACE's Execution block to place the data in ZIP Code order while you run ACE. Turn on the Cache for ZIP Order Processing option only when processing your data in ZIP Code order. Turning this option on when processing data that is not in ZIP Code order will slow performance. Two ways to place data in ZIP Code order ! Best results When you use the Cache for ZIP Order Processing option, you'll see the greatest speed improvements in the following situations: Your data is concentrated geographically. For example, a 100, 000-record file that contains only Wisconsin addresses is processed much faster than a 100, 000-record file that contains addresses for all 50 states. 36 Mover ID User's Guide Your data file is large. Speed improves in proportion to the size of the data file. The Cache for ZIP Order Processing option is not an automatic performance enhancement in every situation. Take time to analyze its effects on your processing speeds. Windows caching options Correctly setting the Windows caching options may improve processing speed. This can help you surpass the previous 2 gigabyte (GB) application memory limit. [. . . ] Using a hard drive over a network or a drive that is being accessed by other processes can reduce your processing speed dramatically. The more records you process that have forwardable moves, the slower your processing will be. Retrieving and decoding the new addresses takes time, so updating a list regularly will improve the processing speed on that list. You can measure the impact of your match rate on your performance by altering your DEF file to use a constant name for all the records, rebooting, and rerunning the job. [. . . ]