IBM Security Directory Integrator (IDI) data feed

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The IBM Security Directory Integrator (IDI) identity feed is used to support data feeds from custom identity sources, and to provide greater flexibility over the standard data feeds.

The IDI data feed is provided for instances where the other HR feeds are not sufficient. Use an IDI data feed to define custom identity feeds.

Use of this data feed requires knowledge of IBM Security Directory Integrator (IDI).

This data feed is used to provide greater flexibility over the standard data feeds. Examples of this flexibility include:
  • Ability to work with a subset of data, such as filtering users in a specified department
  • Additional attribute mapping beyond the one-to-one mapping provided by the standard feeds
  • Data lookups, such as to derive a supervisor or manager from another data source
  • Change detection on the data source
  • Databases and HR systems, such as DB2®, Oracle, PeopleSoft, and SAP
  • Control over attributes, such as updating status or suspending a person
  • Deletion of people
  • Changes driven by IBM Security Directory Integrator instead of by IBM Verify Identity Governance reconciliations (used for deletions, updates, and change detection)

UTF-8 encoding in an identity feed file

Your identity feed file must be in UTF-8 format. You must use an editor that supports UTF-8 encoding.

  • Windows

    The following are UTF-8 capable: Microsoft Word 97 or later, or the Notepad editor that is included with the Windows 2003 Server or Windows XP operating systems.

    To save a file in UTF-8 format using Notepad, click File > Save As. Then, expand the list of choices for the Encoding field and select UTF-8.

  • Linux®

    The Vim text editor (a version of the classic vi editor) is UTF-8 capable. To work with files in UTF-8 format using the Vim text editor, specify the following:

    :set encoding=utf-8
:set guifont=-misc-fixed-medium-r-normal--18-120-100-100-c-90-iso10646-1

    If your version of UNIX does not include this text editor, access this Web site:

    http://www.vim.org

Note: For the 7-bit ASCII code subset, the UTF-8 encoded Unicode format is identical to 7-bit ASCII format. For input files that contain 7-bit ASCII (ASCII character values between hex 20 to hex 7e), you can use a normal text editor to create the file. For files containing any other character values (including extended European characters), you must save the file in UTF-8 format.

For an exact list of the 7-bit ASCII characters as supported by UTF-8, access this Web site and click the Basic Latin link in the first column:

http://www.unicode.org/charts