Accessing Active Directory information

yakiku · Post by **yakiku** » Wed Jun 06, 2007 7:14 am

Hi,

Is there a way to access active directory information from a DataStage job? If so, are there any plug-ins needed for that?

Thanks

DSguru2B · Post by **DSguru2B** » Wed Jun 06, 2007 7:25 am

I have heard that 8.0 has a plugin/methodology to access it directly. In earlier versions, no. But a combination of java packs and webservices might work.
I access data from AD at my site. What I did was to do an ldap/csvde call in a windows bat script. Spit out the result to a flat file and then ftp it over to my DataStage server. That might be something you want to look at.
Search for csvde in google for exact syntax and usage.

vinaymanchinila · Post by **vinaymanchinila** » Thu Jun 24, 2010 8:03 am

Hi All

Is there a new stage in 8.1 to access AD/LDAP?

ray.wurlod · Post by **ray.wurlod** » Thu Jun 24, 2010 4:43 pm

No, though I guess you could use the Java PACK and one of the existing Java applications "out there" to access AD/LDAP from DataStage.

In version 8.x one of the options for user authentication is to use LDAP to access a user registry such as Active Directory. However, this is configured within WebSphere Application Server, and is completely insulated from any Information Server product.

Sreenivasulu · Post by **Sreenivasulu** » Fri Jun 25, 2010 1:03 am

Hi Ray,
I have also seen that the user authentication can be AD in 8.x but can we use this feature selectively for certain users

Regards
Sreeni

ray.wurlod · Post by **ray.wurlod** » Fri Jun 25, 2010 2:18 am

No. Only one method of user authentication can be used.

vinaymanchinila · Post by **vinaymanchinila** » Fri Jun 25, 2010 6:36 am

Ok, thank you guys, FYI wanted to extract attributes from AD based on the ID, will go the java pack way.