Address consistency

Property	Value
A technical identifier, unique in a certain context. Technical key	ADDRESS_CONSISTENCY
The human-friendly name shown for this concept in the user interface, used instead of the technical name to improve readability and understanding. Display name	Address consistency
Informal and comprehensive human-readable definition of a concept. Description	This category encompasses data quality rules that verify the consistency of address values like city, post code, thoroughfare and street within particular country. These rules check whether a provided combination of values exists in the real world. Inconsistencies can indicate data corruption, manual entry errors, or mismatched records. This validation is essential for data integrity in the Consistency dimension, ensuring that interdependent address values remain aligned and coherent across business partner records.
Hierachical parent concept of a concept. Parent	Consistency

Data quality rules

CDQ manages 1 data quality rules in this category.

Data quality rule	The country a linked concept is active or generally relevant for. Country scope	Informal and comprehensive human-readable definition of a concept. Description	Criticality<br/>Specifies how critical of the violation of a data quality rule.<br/>ERROR: Indicates a critical data quality rule violation that requires correction.<br/>WARNING: Indicates a potential data quality issue that should be reviewed.<br/>INFO: Indicates an informational finding with no immediate impact on data quality. Criticality	Rule release status<br/>The release status in terms of development progress or maturity of a data quality rule.<br/>IDEA: Initial rule definition that documents a business requirement but is not yet active in services.<br/>PLANNED: Rule is specified and scheduled for implementation, but not yet active in services.<br/>DRAFT: Rule concept is being prepared or refined but is not yet finalized for implementation or execution.<br/>HYPERCARE: Rule is newly released and under increased observation to ensure stable behaviour and correct results.<br/>RELEASED: Rule has passed verification and is actively executed in productive CDQ services.<br/>DEACTIVATED: Rule is temporarily removed from the active rule set because it needs correction or clarification before re release.<br/>BLOCKED: Rule cannot be released because something it depends on is missing, for example a data source or a clarification.<br/>ARCHIVED: Rule is permanently retired and no longer maintained or intended for future activation. Rule release status
Inconsistency between Post code and Locality in Country CONSISTENCY	WORLD (World)	This rule checks whether the post code, the city and the country of an address actually belong together. The combination is verified against the GeoNames reference database, and an address is flagged when the given post code and city do not occur together in that country.	INFO	HYPERCARE