NLMI Jobs

Understanding Parent and Child NLMI Jobs

A file that you submit to D&B Integration Manager for native language matching can contain three countries — Japan, China, and Taiwan — and up to one million records. Files that you submit to the Asian Matching Engine (AME) through the Native Language Matching Interface (NLMI) can contain only one country. In addition, a file that you send to AME can contain a maximum of eighty thousand (80,000) records.

NLMI jobs have parent and children jobs. D&B Integration Manager divides the parent file into children files as appropriate for processing. D&B Integration Manager calculates the number of children files required and divides the records evenly between them. The parent job contains the original customer file. The children jobs contain the children files that D&B Integration Manager creates using theses rules.

For example:

Total number of records = 160,000

Split size = 80,000.

Number of Splits = 160,000/80,000 = 2

Number of Splits = 2 = Number of Child jobs

Number of records in each child file = 160,000/2 = 80,000

Another Example:

Total number of records = 160,001

Split size = 80,000.

Number of Splits = 160,001/80,000 = 3 (rounded up)

Number of Splits = 3 = Number of Child jobs

Number of records in child files = 160,001/3= 53,334, 53,334, 53,333

Inputting an NLMI Text File for Batch Matching

The Input wizard guides you through the input process for an NLMI text file.

To manually import a file:

1. On the Home page window or the Navigation window, click Batch.
2. In the Batch window, select the Sample_Manual_NLMI_Batch_Template.
3. Click Save as.

4. In the New workflow name window, type a new workflow name, and click OK.

5. In the Pre-Matching phase area, click Input.

6. In the Step 1: Browse an Input file window:
• Click Browse to locate the NLMI file you want to input.
• After the File Name displays the name of the file, click Continue

7. In the Step 2: Selecting the file format window, complete these steps to input a delimited text file:
• Click Delimited.
• In the Delimiter field, select a delimiter from the list.
• Click Continue

8. Map the input file headers to the Standard NLMI field names. The Reference values for BusinessName and Country fields are required and must match.

9. Click Continue.
10. In the NLMI Input Parameters steps, to complete the input configuration, provide the necessary input parameters for the batch job such as: Customer Name and Batch Job Name.
11. If you want a report in a language other than English, provide input parameters for Report Languages. Finally, provide the Matching Language, if applicable.
12. Click Apply.

Viewing NLMI Batch Results

On the NLMI Job Status window, click the Matched link to display the NLMI Batch Results. The results display in two areas. The top area contains all of the records that the NLMI Search returns in the country's native language. The lower area contains the corresponding English language records retrieved from the Integration Manager Common Customer Directory.

The native language results display in a configured data view, which has the Customer Input fields plus these fields:

The lower section contains the corresponding English language records retrieved from the Integration Manager Common Customer Directory.

The following fields are mandatory in this view;

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