SAP Identity Management Job/Position to Roles mapping

Question

Hi All,
I am working on sap identity management 7.1 and use case is the one where HCM is the source of all employee data.
When i extract employee data from HCM, i need to find the roles the employee  has based on their position
I have an excel sheet that describes this mapping in two columns(position/role).
My question is this :
I have two choices :
1- Create MX_role in IDM with an attribute position and load the excel sheet. Then when i receive data from HCM, i will do a select on the roles having the position which will give me the MXREF_ROLE for the user.
2- I would create positions as MX_ROLEs and load the excel sheets with the aclual roles as childs of the position roles. This way once i put MXREF_ROle=position in MX_PERSON, the user will get through inheritance : the roles and the privileges that inherited from the position.
Any idea if anyone tested any of these cases ?
Any other suggestions are welcome.
Thanks a lot

Answer 1

Hi Jack,
From what I understood, you have MX_ROLE with an attribute position(POSITION_ID), if that is the case, the select will look like:
  select * from idmv_vallink_basic where mskey in (
      select mskey from idmv_vallink_basic where mcattrname like 'POSITION_ID' and             mcsearchvalue like 'POSITION_ID_VALUE' and   mskey IN (
                  select mskey from idmv_vallink_basic where  mcattrname='MX_ENTRYTYPE' AND                          mcsearchvalue like 'MX_ROLE')); 
If the case is not like that, just explain it with more details and I'll try to make another select.
Kind Regards,
Simona Lincheva