the way the name is being handled is based on the original GIS name processing used for the PID-5 component of the PID segment. In the original GIS method, if there is a second middle name it is included in the 4th subcomponent so the PID segment, 5th component looked like LASTNAME^FIRSTNAME^MIDDLENAME^SECONDMIDDLENAME.
This has been changed in patch 4 and the second middle name will be ignored.
MT wants to know if we can change it to: ignore the second middle name (suffix) and instead concatenate the first and second middle names together in one field?
We are getting the two names together through our Vital Statistics birth feeds and don’t want to have issues with deduplication or matching data with the reciprocal response feeds (when we get them up and going). We are thinking this might be a better solution than just dropping those compound names.