Global adoption policies

An adoption policy is used during reconciliation to determine the owner of an account. A global adoption policy is defined for a service type or all service types, for the entire system. Global adoption policies are applicable to all service instances if no adoption policy is defined for the specific service.

The default global adoption policy assigns an account to a user if the account user ID attribute matches the IBM® Security Identity Manager user UID attribute. A service-specific adoption policy takes precedence over the global adoption policy.