Sorted search control

Use this information to work with sorted search control.

Sorted Search Results provides sort capabilities for LDAP clients with limited or no sort function. Sorted Search Results allows an LDAP client to receive search results sorted based on a list of criteria, where each criteria represents a sort key. The sort criteria includes attribute types, matching rules, and descending order. The server uses this aspect to sort search results before you return them. This aspect moves the responsibility of sorting from the client application to the server, where it might be done much more efficiently. For example, a client application might want to sort the list of employees at the company's Grand Cayman site by surname, common name, and telephone number. Instead of building the search list twice so it can be sorted (when at the server and then again at the client after all the results are returned), the search list is built only at one time, and then sorted, before you return the results to the client application.

ibm-slapdSortKeyLimit: 3

By default the server accept requests from non-administrator binds, including those bindings anonymously. Because sorting search results before you return them uses more server resources than returning them, you might want to configure the server to accept only requests from users that bind with administrator authority. To accept sorted search requests submitted by using only administrator bind, change the line ibm-slapdSortSrchAllowNonAdmin: true to ibm-slapdSortSrchAllowNonAdmin: false in the ibmslapd.conf file. See Search Settings. If the line does not exist, add it with a value of False to enable only administrator binds for sorted search operations.