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Unless your data have been through a Standardization stage the Match stage is likely to assign a negative (disagreement) weight to "Bob" and "Robert". But you could match on a phonetic of some kind - probably not one of the out-of-the-box ones, which require the first or final character to match. Best is to standardize the name first.

Hi Ray

The problem is even through i figured rob is bobby in standardization, i am not allowed to change it.......but when i run thru standardization stage bob will we converted to robert., correct me if i am wrong....so is there any solution?

You don't have to change it for output. Block on the standardized name, not on the firstname field.