Flat File Active Sync doesn't work for account creation without unique id

Question

Hi,
I'm trying to set up a FlatFileActiveSync for creation and update of accounts in IDM 7.0. I've followed the below steps for this purpose :-
1) Create a correlation rule (confirmation rule not reqd in my case).
2) Create a proxy admin and assign him a empty form. Also give him control over Top organisation.
3) Create a Flat-File Resource Adapter.
4) Create ActiveSync input form using the (Active Sync) wizard.
5) Start Active Sync...
My feed file contains only 3 fields firstname, lastname, email Id.
My correlation rule has the logic of matching up with IDM accounts(Lighthouse accountId) by taking first letter of firstname and concat with lastname from the data coming from feed file.
Now everything works fine for account updates i.e. if I change somebody's email Id who already exists in IDM I can actually see the changed email Id in Configurator's console.
But if I put in a record that doesn't exist, and which I expect to be created, it gives me an error.
Although, if I introduce a unique identifier in my feed file and link it with Lighthouse.accountId the account creation works fine.
Is this a limitation or I'm not doing something right ?
Exception I saw in resource log with log level 4 :
2007-04-30T10:02:12.291-0400: Error Processing Line: {lastname=Pogu, firstname=Gogu, [email protected]}
com.waveset.adapter.iapi.IAPIException: There was a conflict with the record [{lastname=Pogu, firstname=Gogu, [email protected]}]
and no resolution process has been specified on the adapter.
It is recommended that you define the process for handling unmatched accounts
on this load process.
2007-04-30T10:02:12.292-0400: Poll complete.
2007-04-30T10:02:12.292-0400: SARunner: loop 1076
2007-04-30T10:02:12.314-0400: Started, paused until Mon Apr 30 10:07:12 EDT 2007
2007-04-30T10:07:12.024-0400: Pause completed
2007-04-30T10:07:12.038-0400: Polling
2007-04-30T10:07:12.056-0400: Error Processing Line: {lastname=Poker, firstname=Hoker, [email protected]}
com.waveset.adapter.iapi.IAPIException: There was a conflict with the record [{lastname=Poker, firstname=Hoker, [email protected]}]
and no resolution process has been specified on the adapter.
It is recommended that you define the process for handling unmatched accounts
on this load process.

Answer 1

That logic is in my correlation rule as I specified in my initial post and here's the XPRESS code for it :-
<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?>
<!DOCTYPE Rule PUBLIC 'waveset.dtd' 'waveset.dtd'>
<!-- MemberObjectGroups="#ID#Top" description="Find out if a resource account is correlated to an IDM account" id="#ID#D23CC16ECF6E5D42:-4527465C:11224925657:-769F" lastMod="61" lastModifier="Configurator" name="HR_DB_CORR" subtype="SUBTYPE_ACCOUNT_CORRELATION_RULE"-->
<Rule subtype='SUBTYPE_ACCOUNT_CORRELATION_RULE' id='#ID#D23CC16ECF6E5D42:-4527465C:11224925657:-769F' name='HR_DB_CORR' creator='Configurator' createDate='1177449448746' lastModifier='Configurator' lastModDate='1177686884156' lastMod='61'>
<Description>Find out if a resource account is correlated to an IDM account</Description>
<cond>
<and>
<notnull>
<ref>firstname</ref>
</notnull>
<notnull>
<ref>lastname</ref>
</notnull>
</and>
<block>
<concat>
<substr>
<ref>firstname</ref>
<i>0</i>
<i>1</i>
</substr>
<ref>lastname</ref>
</concat>
</block>
<s>false</s>
</cond>
<MemberObjectGroups>
<ObjectRef type='ObjectGroup' id='#ID#Top' name='Top'/>
</MemberObjectGroups>
</Rule>
Although this is not specified in Active Sync input form but in the correlation rule attribute of Active Sync config (using the wizard). Do I need to specify it there using the Field function.
Also, I figured out today that I needed to restart IDM instance after changing the value of "Create Unmatched Accounts" flag and now the error is as below :-
<WavesetResult>
<ResultItem type='error' status='error'>
<ResultError throwable='com.waveset.util.WavesetException'>
<Message id='SES_VIEW_CHECKIN_ERROR'>
</Message>
<StackTrace>com.waveset.util.WavesetException: Unable to checkin view. No account ID specified.&#xA;&#x9;at com.waveset.view.UserViewer.checkinView(UserViewer.java:1165)&#xA;&#x9;at com.waveset.object.ViewMaster.checkinView(ViewMaster.java:727)&#xA;&#x9;at com.waveset.sync.IAPIUserImpl.processCommand(IAPIUserImpl.java:526)&#xA;&#x9;at com.waveset.sync.IAPIUserImpl.submitCreate(IAPIUserImpl.java:195)&#xA;&#x9;at com.waveset.sync.IAPIUserImpl.submit(IAPIUserImpl.java:749)&#xA;&#x9;at com.waveset.adapter.FlatFileActiveSyncAdapter.processLine(FlatFileActiveSyncAdapter.java:404)&#xA;&#x9;at com.waveset.adapter.FlatFileActiveSyncAdapter.processFlatFile(FlatFileActiveSyncAdapter.java:350)&#xA;&#x9;at com.waveset.adapter.FlatFileActiveSyncAdapter.poll(FlatFileActiveSyncAdapter.java:307)&#xA;&#x9;at com.waveset.task.SARunner.doRealWork(SARunner.java:288)&#xA;&#x9;at com.waveset.task.Executor.execute(Executor.java:154)&#xA;&#x9;at com.waveset.task.TaskThread.run(TaskThread.java:132)&#xA;</StackTrace>
</ResultError>
</ResultItem>
</WavesetResult>