ARSLSYNC Question

[JeanineJ]

This is for implementations that use the Thick Client for users to retrieve documents.
I have finally gotten ARSLSYNC working in my sandbox enviroment. YAY Me!
I'm not really thrilled with what I'm seeing.
We are using sAMAccountName for the BIND and MAPPED attributes for LDAP which track back to how we identify employees and contractors in my company.
For the SYNC we're setting USER_FILTER to objectClass=user memberOf... and for GROUP_FILTER = objectClass=group cn=CMOD*dev (yes I'm skipping typing in the full text, just go with me.)
When I run the SYNC I only get the value for the User ID but not the Name or Descriptions that we use when manually loading a user to CMOD. IBM Lab Services says that's all we get and I'm not thrilled. I like to see names and departments that go with the user ID.
Does anyone else care? Has anyone else be able to solve this? Lab Services suggested I request an enhancement to ARSLSYNC.
Because of this we're delaying our ARSLSYNC provisioning until next year.

[Justin Derrick]

What's the advantage to mirroring this data locally?  The System Log only records the User IDs anyway.  If you want to look up who a user is, copy & paste the User ID into your LDAP Client / Org Chart / Teams / eMail client, and you should get the information you're looking for.

I agree about the Enhancement Request, but spend the time to think through how it would be implemented and what features you (and other CMOD customers) might want.

-JD.

[runtling]

We are also looking at implementing using arslsync and also would want the user name populated. In our installation the LDAP is external and is supported by another vendor. Since we are not the administrators of the LDAP we won't be directly logging on to the LDAP. In our case, having the user names included in CMOD as well as the LDAP will be helpful for validation and reporting. When we get a help ticket for a user it would be good to be able to see that the user ID supplied belongs to the person specified in the help ticket.

[PostWagon70-1]

Hi ,  we are also implementing ARSLSYNC and have the same issue.  We would like to have more information from the user in the ldap into the CMOD user administration.  The company is using a unique id for every employee and uses that f.e. in audit logging (custom made for CMOD via an exit).  Currently we are thinking about writing an extra script to  get that unique id and put it into the cmod usertable but it would far better solution if we can do it in one go with ARSLSYNC.  It would be nice if we could map at leasted 5 attributes from ldap to CMOD user administration.

How can we make this wish known to  IBM? How can we make an enhancement to IBM to request for this? 

[mayank81089]

Hi ,  we are also implementing ARSLSYNC and have the same issue.  We would like to have more information from the user in the ldap into the CMOD user administration.  The company is using a unique id for every employee and uses that f.e. in audit logging (custom made for CMOD via an exit).  Currently we are thinking about writing an extra script to  get that unique id and put it into the cmod usertable but it would far better solution if we can do it in one go with ARSLSYNC.  It would be nice if we could map at leasted 5 attributes from ldap to CMOD user administration.

How can we make this wish known to  IBM? How can we make an enhancement to IBM to request for this?

Lets post your query at below IBM portal for them to consider and it has the facility for people to vote for this idea

https://ibm-data-and-ai.ideas.ibm.com/

[Justin Derrick]

Please use our enhancements forum instead, so we can present the item to IBM as part of the next Enhancements Discussion with IBM.

[PostWagon70-1]

Hi on advise of our IBM technical contact ,  we registered an new 'idea' at the IBM side: https://ideas.ibm.com/new-idea  for this matter