What is new in this release

The new features and enhancements available in this release are listed here.

User registry bridge Fix Pack 5 or later
The user registry bridge is a read-only adapter that provides an interface between federated repositories and an underlying user registry implementation, which can be either a local operating system user registry or a custom user registry implementation.
Searching for changed entities Fix Pack 7 or later
Use the search(DataObject) method and the ChangeControl DataObject to query the federated repository for changed entities from a certain checkpoint onwards.
Managing schemas Fix Pack 7 or later
Use the following commands to manage federated repository data model schemas:
Manually setting up the property extension repository Fix Pack 7 or later
Use the createIdMgrPropExtDbTables script to create tables in the property extension repository for federated repositories.
Plug-in manager Fix Pack 9 or later
The plug-in manager provides a framework that enables you to write extensions to virtual member manager, to consume a variety of services that can be added in the future.
Configuring LDAP attributes Fix Pack 9 or later
Use the following new or enhanced commands (in addition to existing commands) to manage the virtual member manager properties and LDAP directory attributes in a federated repositories LDAP repository configuration:
  • IdMgrRepositoryConfig command group:
  • addIdMgrLDAPAttrNotSupported
  • deleteIdMgrLDAPAttrNotSupported
  • listIdMgrLDAPAttrsNotSupported
  • addIdMgrLDAPExternalIdAttr
  • deleteIdMgrLDAPExternalIdAttr
  • listIdMgrLDAPExternalIdAttrs
  • addIdMgrLDAPAttr
  • deleteIdMgrLDAPAttr
  • listIdMgrLDAPAttrs
Primary and secondary LDAP server failover Fix Pack 9 or later
Virtual member manager supports configuration of multiple LDAP servers for fault tolerance and reliability.
Mapping user registry attributes in a realm Fix Pack 11 or later
Use the following new commands to set or modify the mapping of the user or group attribute for a user registry to a federated repository property of a specified realm and to list these mappings.
Client certificate login support for file repositoryFix Pack 25 or later
You can enable support for client certificate login in a realm configured with a single built-in file-based repository or a multiple repository configuration that includes the file-based repository and other repositories. The default configuration of the file based repository ignores a certificate login request, returns an empty search result, and does not display any error. To enable support for certificate mapping in the file-based repository, install WebSphere Application Server fixpack version 7.0.0.25 or higher, and follow the procedure in the topic, Enabling client certificate login support for a file-based repository in federated repositories


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