Updating NCOA Data

TrueAddress (TA) relies on having access to current CASS, EWS, and NCOALink data. TA provides updates of the CASS data monthly and the EWS data, weekly. The Client is responsible for downloading and extracting the provided NCOA updates to ‘/home/common/TrueAddress/NCOA_Data’. Steps will be provided below.

Updated NCOALink data is provided to licensees by the USPS weekly or monthly, depending on the terms of their license agreement.

Window Book does not provide the necessary NCOALink data and is therefore not responsible for the update of the NCOALink data in TA. Clients should refer to their specific licensee performance requirements dictated by the USPS for determining how they are to receive their NCOALink data, when it should be updated, and all other NCOA data management requirements.

Updated NCOALink data should be extracted to the ‘/../TrueAddress/NCOA_Data’ directory on the server or computer where TA is installed.

We do not show Linux screens for the steps to update because we do not have NCOA data.

Steps to update NCOA data:

  1. Delete the current NCOA data and load the new data to the same folder.

If you followed our folder paths when installing TA, then the next two steps document how to change the path and extract your NCOA data. Otherwise, change to the appropriate location.

Also, our example .tar file name ”ncl18ankht_256.tar” needs to be replaced with the name of your .tar file.

  1. Enter

    2. Copy 
    cd /home/common/TrueAddress/NCOA_Data

  2. Enter

    Copy 
    ./extract_NCOA_DB.sh  /home/common/TrueAddress/NCOA_Data/ncl18ankht_256.tar

  3. USPS NCOA Dailydel data should be downloaded each day before you run any NCOA jobs and replace the file in the '/../TrueAddress/NCOA_Data’ directory on the server.