Supported LDAP client and server configurations

The following table summarizes the supported LDAP client and server configurations.

IBM® Tivoli® Directory Server is an LDAP Version 6.2 server and is available for Windows, AIX®, and Linux®, and is shipped as part of the base operating system on AIX and System i®, and with OS/390® Security Server.

The Db2® database supports IBM LDAP client on AIX, Windows, and Linux.

Microsoft Active Directory server is an LDAP Version 3 server and is available as part of the Windows 2000 Server and Windows Server 2003 family of operating systems.

The Microsoft LDAP Client is included with the Windows operating system.

Table 1. Supported LDAP client and server configurations
Supported LDAP Client and Server Configurations	IBM Tivoli Directory server	Microsoft Active Directory server	Sun One LDAP server
IBM LDAP Client	Supported	Supported	Supported
Microsoft LDAP/ADSI Client	Supported	Supported	Supported

Note: When running on Windows operating systems, the Db2 database manager supports using either the IBM LDAP client or the Microsoft LDAP client. To explicitly select the IBM LDAP client, use the db2set command to set the DB2LDAP_CLIENT_PROVIDER registry variable to IBM. The Microsoft LDAP Client is included with the Windows operating system.