6.4. OS/400

In general, the LDAP DB2 server that runs on OS/400 supports the LDAP V2 protocol. The server supports referrals and is capable of replicating its information to other LDAP-capable servers. Replication is done using the LDAP protocol.

Similar to the LDAP server for OS/390, there is one difference between the OS/400 and AIX implementations worth noting. Directory entry data is stored in the DB2 backing store in so-called wire format. Thus, whatever information is stored into the directory will be returned as it was entered. However, in order to support attribute-based searching, character string data is converted to code page 37, which contains the IA5 character set supported by LDAP V2. During this conversion, any characters not ...

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