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tPersonator Standard properties

These properties are used to configure tPersonator running in the Standard Job framework.

The standard tPersonator component belongs to the Data Quality family.

Basic Settings

Schema and Edit schema

A schema is a row description. It defines the number of fields (columns) to be processed and passed on to the next component.

Click Sync columns to retrieve the schema from the previous component connected in the Job.

Select the Schema type:
  • Built-In: You create and store the schema locally for this component only.

  • Repository: You have already created the schema and stored it in the Repository. You can reuse it in various projects and Job designs.

Click Edit schema to make changes to the schema. If the current schema is of the Repository type, three options are available:

View schema: choose this option to view the schema only.

Change to built-in property: choose this option to change the schema to Built-in for local changes.

Update repository connection: choose this option to change the schema stored in the repository and decide whether to propagate the changes to all the Jobs upon completion. If you just want to propagate the changes to the current Job, you can select No upon completion and choose this schema metadata again in the Repository Content window.

The only supported data type is String.

The output schema contains read-only columns. For more information, see the tPersonator output schema.

Input mapping Associate the Personator field with the Input column.

Important: When an input column is not defined in the Input mapping table, the corresponding output columns are empty.

Actions Select the actions to perform:
  • Check action: Standardizes the data and ensures that they are valid. This action analyses each data separately. For example, if the zip code does not match the city, the Check action corrects it, without impacting the other data.
  • Verify action: Ensures that the different data are associated with each other. This action analyses the data as a whole. For example, if you perform this action on the addresses, the Verify action verifies whether the address is associated with the same name, phone and email in other databases.
  • Move action: Retrieves the last address. The database must at least contain the last name or company name and an address.
  • Append action: Adds missing data.
Depending on the action, some inputs are mandatory.
Centric hint Available if you select Append action or Verify action.
Select one reference data:
  • Auto: Select to use the address as the reference data. If not available, the phone number is used. If not available, the email is used. If not available, the SSN (Social Security Number) is used.
  • Address
  • Phone
  • Email
  • SSN

    This reference data is available if you select Verify action.

Append options Available if you select Append action.
Select one action:
  • Blank: Select to append data when your database does not contain either the address, phone, email, name or company.
  • Check error: Select to append data when errors occur to either the address, phone, email, name or company:
    • An address error occurs when the address is not found in the database, is not partially verified, or cannot be corrected. The component does not return the result codes: AS01, AS02, or AS03. For more information on the result codes, see this description table .

    • A phone error occurs when the phone number does not contain 7 or 10 digits. The component does not return the result codes: PS01 or PS02. For more information on the result codes, see this description table.

    • An email error occurs when the email is not found in the database, or if the email is unconfirmed. The component does not return the result codes: ES01 or ES03. For more information on the result codes, see this description table.

    • A name error occurs when the name did not parse successfully. The component does not return the result code: NS01. For more information on the result codes, see this description table.
    • A company error occurs when the company name is not provided.
  • Always: Select to append data, regardless of whether the address, phone, email, name or company in your database is blank or incorrect.
Address options Diacritics: auto, on or off. Set to on to return the French characters. If set to auto, those characters are returned if present in your database.

Advanced address correction: Select to perform an advanced correction of the address. It uses the full name or company name and can correct or append house number, street name, city, state and zip code.

Use preferred city: Select to use the city name preferred by the postal services.

Name options Name hint
  • Definitely full: Select to treat the name in this order: first name, middle name, last name, regardless of formatting or punctuation.
  • Very likely full: Select to treat the name in this order: first name, middle name, last name, unless the order is indicated by formatting or punctuation.
  • Probably full: Select to let the statistical logic determine the name order, with a bias toward this order: first name, middle name, last name.
  • Varying: Select to let the statistical logic determine the name order, with no bias toward either name order.
  • Probably inverse: Select to let the statistical logic determine the name order, with a bias toward this order: last name, middle name, first name.
  • Very likely inverse: Select to treat the name in this order: last name, middle name, first name, unless the order is indicated by formatting or punctuation.
  • Definitely inverse: Select to treat the name in this order: last name, middle name, first name, regardless of formatting or punctuation.
  • Mixed first name: Select if the last name misses. Name field must only contain prefixes, first name and middle name.
  • Mixed last name: Select if the first and middle names miss. Name field must only contain last names and suffixes.
Middle name logic
  • Parse logic: Select to consider the middle name as part of the last name. This consideration is possible if the middle name is a common last name. In this case, the last name is hyphenated.
  • Hyphenated last: Select to consider the second word as part of the last name.
  • Middle name: Select to consider the second word as a middle name.
Salutation format: Select the salutation format. For example, John Smith:
  • Formal: Mr. Smith
  • Informal: John
  • First/Last: John Smith
Gender population: Mixed, Male, Female Select the predominant gender in your database.

Genderization policy: Neutral, Conservative, Aggressive. For more information on this option, see theSetting up the Genderization policy parameter of tPersonator .

To see the preceding Name options information in the output columns, select the Name details check box in Miscellaneous outputs.

Correct first name: Select to correct the spelling of the first name.

Standardize company: Select to apply title cases and abbreviate the company name. For example, melissa data corporation is replaced by Melissa Data Corp..
Email options Database lookup: Select to verify the domain names using a database of valid domains.

Standardize case: Select to lowercase the email characters before any action.

Correct syntax: Select to correct the syntax of the email. This option supports simple email syntax: local part + @ + domain + ‘.’ + top-level domain. For example, jsmith@domain,coj is replaced by jsmith@domain.com.

Update domain: Select to update the domain name if out-of-dated.

Address outputs Basic (Default): Select to return the basic address. This setting is always enabled.

Address details: Select to return the detailed address.

Plus4: Select to return the +4 code.

Private mailbox: Select to return the private mail box number. These mail boxes are the private mail boxes in commercial mail receiving agencies.

Suite: Select to return the apartment number.

Parsed address: Select to return the address details.

Geographics outputs Census: Select to return census information.

Census 2: Select to return more census information.

Geocode: Select to return the geocode.

Miscellaneous outputs Demographic details: Select to return a string containing all the results of the demographics. Commas delimit the results.

Name details: Select to return the name details such as the gender, salutation...

Parsed email: Select to return the email details such as the domain name, mailbox name...

Parsed phone: Select to return the phone number details such as the extension, prefix...

Depending on the action, some inputs are mandatory.
Action Mandatory inputs
Check The database must at least contain one of the following:
  • Address and zip code
  • Address and city or state
  • Phone number
  • Email
  • Full name
  • First name and last name
Verify The database must at least contain two of the following:
  • Address and zip code or address, city and state
  • Phone number
  • Email
  • Full name or last name or first and last names
  • Company name
If the database contains only names and company names, you cannot perform the verify action. The results cannot be accurate enough.
Move The database must at least contain one of the following:
  • Address and full name
  • Address and first and last names
  • Address and company name
Append The mandatory inputs depend on the data to append.
To append a name or company name, the database must at least contain one of the following:
  • Address, city and state or address and zip code
  • Phone number
  • Email
To append an address, the database must at least contain one of the following:
  • Phone number
  • Email
To append a phone number, the database must at least contain one of the following:
  • Address, city and state or address and zip code
  • Email
To append an email, the database must at least contain one of the following:
  • Address, city and state or address and zip
  • Phone number

Advanced Settings

tStatCatcher statistics

Select this check box to gather the Job processing metadata at the Job level as well as at each component level.

License key

To enter a key, click the […] button next to the field.

If you have no license key, contact Melissa Data.
Number of retries Define the number of retries before the Job fails.
Timeout in seconds Define the timeout time period.
Cache directory Browse the cache directory.
Batch request size (1-100) Define the number of messages to be delivered in each batch.
Multithreading Select to use more than one thread in the same job to handle the response from the Melissa data service.
Thead count (1-10) Define the maximum number of threads.
Show debug console output Select to show the debug console output.

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