[SOLVED] IBIMR parameter for Email Address?

Hi all,

I was wondering if there's a parameter that would contain the Email Address from the user's profile on Security Center?

I have a fex that I want to email the report to the &IBIMR_User via EDAMAI but I need to retrieve his email address from his Security Center profile.

Thank you for your assistance.

Regards,
Anatess

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Hi Anatess

There is no IBIMR parameter that I am aware of. If the e-mail address is stored in your AD/LDAP directory you can use the LDAP Adapter (It is a free adapter) to look it up. It is a bit tricky setting up the ldap adapter as you have to have the right pointers (OU=) to where this information can be found in the configuration.

Hope this helps,

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Thank you very much for your help, Chuck.

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My two cents: I'm not sure why the email address is not exposed in an IBI MR parameter, it seems to make sense that it would be. It shouldn't be up to the customer to ask for it and then wait years for it to be deployed - this is the kind of thing that should be there out of the box.

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Meanwhile, I would just write a utility program that I would include wherever needed. It would read the appropriate WebFOCUS Repository table, uoa_users:

-SET &ECHO='ALL';

SET SQLENGINE = MYSQL
SQL SET DEFAULT_CONNECTION webfocus8
-RUN

SQL
select
email 'EMAIL_ADDRESS'
from uoa_users
where name = '&IBIMR_user';
TABLE ON TABLE HOLD AS HOLD_EMAIL
END
-RUN

-SET &EMAIL_ADDRESS = '';

-READFILE HOLD_EMAIL

-TYPE &EMAIL_ADDRESS

You can either create metadata for the Repository table(s) and then use TABLE FILE, or use SQL passthru.

You can make the utility program more useful by also retrieving other user attributes, like Name, etc.

Note: Depending on your set up, you may have to include the schema name as prefix to the table name.

All this works only if the information was added to the WebFOCUS Security Center.

Francis

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I agree with Francis solution it is much easier to implement.

Thank you Francis!

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