The DQ.IDENTIFY function
analyzes a string and determines the context of the string. The context
refers to a logical type of data, such as name, address, or phone.
The function is a member
of the data quality class. A data quality object can be declared as
a variable and must then be initialized using a call to the function
DQ.INITIALIZE. The member function DQ.LOADQKB must then be called
to load the contents of a QKB into memory and link that QKB with the
data quality object. The data quality object then retains information
about the QKB locale setting and the QKB locale setting.
When calling DQ.IDENTIFY,
you must specify the name of an identification analysis definition.
An identification analysis definition is an object in the QKB that
contains reference data and logic used to identify the context of
the input string. Refer to your QKB documentation for information
about which identification analysis definitions are available in your
QKB.
Note: For each identification analysis
definition, there is a small set of possible contexts that might be
output. Refer to the description of an identification analysis definition
in the QKB documentation to see which contexts that definition is
able to identify.