It has happened to me several times that when I do fuzzy merging using reclink 2, the command finds perfect matches but then returns a negative value for matched results. At first, I thought it was a problem with the id variable, but that didn't fix it. Here is the code:
reclink2 name_merge scpty_zip_ucc using "$ffiec_output/bhcs_cleannames_2", idm(scpty_unique_id) idu(unique_id) gen(reclink_value3) minscore(0.975) required(scpty_zip_ucc) uvarlist(scpty_name_mer scpty_zip_ffiec) many npairs(3)
reclink2 name_merge scpty_zip_ucc using "$ffiec_output/bhcs_cleannames_2", idm(scpty_unique_id) idu(unique_id) gen(reclink_value3) minscore(0.975) required(scpty_zip_ucc) uvarlist(scpty_name_mer scpty_zip_ffiec) many npairs(3)
