Enterprise Identity Mapping APIs

Use this information learn about the EIM APIs and how you can use them in your applications and network.

Enterprise Identity Mapping (EIM) provides the mechanics for cross-platform user identity management. EIM has multiple application programming interfaces (APIs) that applications can use to conduct EIM operations on behalf of the application or an application user. You can use these APIs to conduct identity mapping lookup operations, various EIM management and configuration functions, as well as information changes and query capabilities. Each of these APIs are supported across IBM^® platforms.

EIM APIs fall into multiple categories, as follows:

EIM handle and connection operations
EIM domain administration
Registry operations
EIM identifier operations
EIM association management
EIM mapping lookup operations
EIM authorization management

Applications that use these APIs to manage or use the EIM information in an EIM domain typically adhere to the following programming model:

Get an EIM handle
Connect to an EIM domain
Normal application processing
Use an EIM administration or EIM identity mapping lookup operation API
Normal application processing
Before ending, destroy the EIM handle