Controlling access to DSM
IBM Data Server Manager (DSM) has its own user management function that works with two basic roles: DSM Administrator and DSM user
Authentication through DSM
By logging in as DSM Administrator, you can go to Settings > Users and Privileges and create DSM user IDs and assign appropriate roles to them.
To find out more about the capabilities of each role, see Controlling console and database access.
Authentication through an LDAP service
With the release of v2.1.2, DSM provides support for the Open LDAP authentication method. Now, DSM administrators can delegate the user authentication work to an enterprise LDAP server, rather than setting up a set of user IDs specifically for Data Server Manager.
- Open LDAP
- Apache Directory
- Windows Active Directory
- Tivoli Directory Server
To learn how to configure your DSM installation for leveraging these LDAP capabilities, see Authentication through an LDAP service.
Authentication through a repository database
You can also delegate DSM authentication to a repository database. This can be a Db2® database, or a Db2 for z/OS® database. That's said, all the DSM users should be repository database users.
To find out how to implement this authentication configuration, see Authentication through a repository database.