Step 11: Update Match and Standardization Engine Files

The match engine configuration file has not changed since the previous release, and can be copied directly into the service-enabled project. Some of the standardization files were changed extensively. If you want to use the previous configuration for the person name standardization files, you will need to reformat the files.

To Update Match Engine Files

• If matchConfigFile.cfg was customized in the Repository-based version, copy the text of the file into the service-enabled version, replacing all existing text. If the file was not customized for your implementation, you can skip this step.

To Update Standardization Engine Files

1. If any Address or Business Name files were customized in the Repository-based project, copy the text of those files and paste it into the corresponding service-enabled files, replacing the existing text.

   File names have changed as indicated in the following table. Any Address or Business Name files not listed here have the same name in both versions. Make sure you when you update the files that you update the correct country set.

   Repository-Based File Name Service-Enabled File Name addressClueAbbrev*.dat clues.dat addressMasterClues*.dat masterClues.dat addressPatterns*.dat patterns.dat addressConstants*.cfg Obsolete addressInternalConstants*.cfg Obsolete addressOutPatterns.dat Obsolete bizConstants.cfg Obsolete bizRemoveSpecChars.dat Obsolete

2. If any Person Name files were customized in the Repository-based project, do one of the following:
   • Manually make the changes to the service-enabled version.

     File names have changed for this release, as indicated in the following table. The following files are obsolete: personNamePatt.dat, personConstants.cfg, personFirstNameDash.dat, personRemoveSpecChars.dat, personThree*.dat, personTwo*.dat, personLastNamePrefix*.dat, and personConjon*.dat.

     Repository-Based File Name Service-Enabled File Name personFirstName*.dat givenNameNormalization.txt and givenName.txt personGenSuffix*.dat and person.OccupSuffix*.dat generationNormalization.txt and generation.txt personTitle.dat titleNormalization.txt and title.txt

   • Copy the text from the Repository-based files and paste it into the corresponding service-enabled files, replacing the existing text. Make sure to copy the text into the correct country files. Then reformat the file based on the new two-column format, as shown below:

     STEVE|STEPHEN
     STEWART|STUART
     STEW|STUART
     STU|STUART
     SUE|SUSAN
     SULLY|SULLIVAN

     Note - For more information about the new standardization files, see FSM-Based Person Name Configuration, in Understanding the Master Index Standardization Engine.

3. You can customize the following new Person Name files: salutationNormalization.txt, salutation.txt, surnameNormalization.txt, and surname.txt.