Import LDIF File (QgldImportLdif)

The Import LDIF File (QgldImportLdif) API imports directory server data from a Lightweight Directory Access Protocol Data Interchange Format (LDIF) file.

The IBM Directory Server must be stopped to use this API. To stop the server, use the End TCP/IP Server (ENDTCPSVR SVR(*DIRSRV)) command.

Authorities and Locks

Directory Authority

The caller must provide the administrator DN and password if the caller does not have *ALLOBJ and *IOSYSCFG special authorities and the caller is not a IBM Directory Server administrator. The caller is a IBM Directory Server administrator if the IBM Directory Server for iSeries has been configured to grant administrator access to authorized users and the caller is authorized to the 'Directory Server Administrator' function of the operating system.

Object Authorities

The caller must have Execute (*X) authority to each directory in the path name preceding the name of the LDIF file. The caller must have Read (*R) authority to the LDIF file.

Required Parameter Group

Input data

INPUT; CHAR(*)

Input data required to identify the LDIF file and the administrator name and password. The content and format of this structure are determined by the format name. See Format of Input Data for a description of these formats.

Length of input data

INPUT; BINARY(4)

The length of the input data structure.

Format name

INPUT; CHAR(8)

The content and format of the input data. The possible format name follows:

LDIF0100	Import LDIF file
LDIF0200	Import LDIF file with options

See Format of Input Data for a description of this format.

Error code

I/O; CHAR(*)

The structure in which to return error information. For the format of the structure, see Error code parameter.

Format of Input Data

For details about the format of the input data, see the following section. For details about the fields in each format, see Field Descriptions.

LDIF0100 Format

LDIF0200 Format

Field Descriptions

Additional fields indicator. Additional fields supplied for a format. See the format descriptions for possible uses and values of this field.

Administrator DN. The distinguished name of the server administrator. This field is specified in UTF-16 (CCSID 13488).

Administrator password. The password for the server administrator. This field is specified in UTF-16 (CCSID 13488).

LDIF file. The integrated file system path name of the LDIF file to be used. This field is specified in UTF-16 (CCSID 13488).

Length of administrator DN. The length, in UTF-16 (CCSID 13488) characters, of the administrator DN field.

Length of administrator password. The length, in UTF-16 (CCSID 13488) characters, of the administrator password field.

Length of LDIF file. The length, in UTF-16 (CCSID 13488) characters, of the LDIF file field.

Level indicator. The level indicator of the data supplied for a format. See the format descriptions for possible uses and values of this field.

Offset to administrator DN. The offset, in bytes, from the start of the input data to the administrator DN field.

Offset to administrator password. The offset, in bytes, from the start of the input data to the administrator password field.

Offset to LDIF file. The offset, in bytes, from the start of the input data to the LDIF file field.

Replicate imported data. Indicates whether imported data should be replicated to replica servers. This option could be used, for example, when initializing an additional master server so that it does not attempt to replicate data to servers already containing this data. If format LDIF0100 is used, imported data is replicated. The following values may be specified Whether the directory server will replicate imported data. The following values may be specified:

Error Messages