Revised 12 Dec 2014
Description
InfoSphere® QualityStage Module for U.S.
Address Certification, Version 8.6 provides address verification and
enhancements, certified by the United States Postal Service (USPS)®,
for U.S. addresses. This module meets all the requirements of certification
to allow you to qualify for USPS® discounts and ensures the completeness,
consistency, and validity of critical U.S. address information in
databases. InfoSphere QualityStage
Module for U.S. Address Certification, Version 8.6, requires IBM® InfoSphere Information
Server,
Version 11.3.1.
The module must be used with reference data
provided by the USPS® and made available as part of a subscription
with IBM.
InfoSphere QualityStage
Module for U.S. Address Certification, in support of CASS™ Cycle
N, contains the following functions:
- Residential Delivery Indicator (RDI)
- Provides a Y indicator in the output records of non-business addresses.
A Y indicator means that the address is a residence.
- SuiteLink indicator
- In business address input records that do not include suite numbers,
performs a search and then, in the output records, provides suite
numbers and ZIP + 4® Codes. This is required to receive the postal
discount.
- Preferred aliases
- In output records, returns preferred aliases except when the aliases
conflict with the 30-character address rule.
- Matching to a secondary value of zero
- Supports the matching of zero values in secondary addresses when
reference records indicate that the range is valid. For example,
a house number might be 0320 River Street. Cycle
N extends the same match criteria to secondary address values. For
example, in the address 123 Main Street, Suite 05G,
the primary building number value is 123, and the
secondary value is 05G. The module can match to a
secondary value of zero only when reference records show that ranges
that contain leading zeros are valid.
- Delivery Point Validation (DPV) tie breaking
- Determines when to use the DPV-confirmed result and when to return
a no-match condition. The use of DPV is mandatory in Cycle N.
- Matching of firm records
- Matches the input ZIP + 4® codes of business firms against the
USPS® firm reference records. A firm name or suite name might not
match the reference record but the module makes the match based on
the ZIP + 4® match.
- Street and city abbreviations
- Optimizes the module to return street addresses of 30 characters
or fewer and city characters of 13 characters or fewer as output.
The city name abbreviation is an option that the user can select.
- Vacancy indicator
- Provides output records that include a Y or N value
in the Vacancy field. A value of Y indicates
the address is vacant.
- NoStat indicator
- Provides a Y or N value
in the NoStat field. A value of Y in
the output records indicates an address that does not receive deliveries.
System requirements
The
CASS™ database requires 5 GB of disk space. The module requires
up to 100 MB of disk space depending on the platform. InfoSphere QualityStage Module for U.S.
Address Certification, Version 8.6, requires IBM InfoSphere Information
Server,
Version 11.3.1.
For information about hardware
and software compatibility, read the detailed system requirements.
Known problems
Limitations
and problems for InfoSphere QualityStage® Module
for U.S. Address Certification, Version 8.6, are documented in technotes,
which are available on the IBM Support Portal.
Note: If this
query contains no search results, there are no known problems for
that product area.
IBM InfoSphere QualityStage Module for U.S. Address Certification, Version 8.6
Last updated: 2014-12-12