Transform, Report, and Convert to (and from) LDIF Files (LDAP Data Interchange Format)

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LDIF (LDAP Data Interchange Format)

Process and Convert to/from LDIF Files Quickly

Challenges:

LDIF is an interchange format for representing LDAP (Lightweight Directory Access Protocol) contents and update requests. LDAP directories hold information with similar attributes, organized both logically and hierarchically; e.g. an address book sorted by name, with email and phone data attached. Advanced LDAP deployments today may use Domain Name System (DNS) names for structuring the hierarchy, with underlying entries representing a multiple entry tree.

However, while LDIF records may hold large volumes of customer and transaction information, they are not stored in a format that most applications can readily import or process.

Solutions:

IRI delivers LDIF and other file conversion functionality in two packages, which you can choose based on the level of need:

LDIF File Conversion Only
Now available from IRI is a low-cost, data migration product called NextForm. NextForm allows you to convert files in LDIF to other formats (like CSV, XML, text, etc.) or from the other formats on the left into LDIF. NextForm also supports data type conversion at the field level, and the remapping of record layouts.

Note that NextForm file definitions will work in SortCL so that you can re-use your metadata if you someday want to upgrade to CoSort's fast transformation, custom reporting, and/or data-centric protection functions.

LDIF File Processing & Conversion
The SortCL tool inside the CoSort package can process LDAP data (i.e. sort, transform, report, protect), convert files in LDIF to other file formats, and/or create LDIF files from those formats.

Using a simple 4GL to define the layout and manipulation of your log files, SortCL users can run and combine LDAP Data:

• Transformations (scrub, sort, join, group, etc.)
• Conversions (data types, record layouts, files)
• Protections (field-level encryption, de-ID, etc.)
• Reporting (custom detail, delta and summaries)

plus validation, pattern matching, custom tasks, etc. in the same job script and I/O pass. With SortCL, you can map one or more input files in one more more formats to one or more detail or summary reports, and/or hand off pre-sorted, filtered and converted subsets to database load utilities or other applications.

LDIF Test Data
Do you need test data in LDIF file formats? If so, see IRI's RowGen product. RowGen uses the same layout metadata as CoSort (SortCL) and NextForm so you can easily move between test data generation and real data transformation.

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