Searching Product Info in OID

Question

I need to be able to search and retrieve either the DN of the Forms application entity or its Logical Application Group subentry from my OID root OracleContext. I am only able to search and retrieve the DN using orcladmin. As I want to put this into code I do not want to use the superuser. I would much rather use another application entity.
I have tried adding my application entity to the iasadmins group, as well as tried to create the ACI's to grant my app entity the ability to retrieve the DN. When I got away from the "insuffient access" error I started getting
ldap_search: DSA is unwilling to perform
ldap_search: additional info: Function Not Implemented
Is this broke? Can anyone else try get something like the following to retrieve the DN without being orcladmin?
ldapsearch -D orclapplicationcommonname=myapp -w mypw -b "cn=Forms,cn=Products,cn=OracleContext" -s sub "orclapplicationcommonname=forms*" dn
The reason I am doing this is because when I create a RAD it leaves off the orclresourceviewers attribute which is what make it possible the Forms Servlet to access the RAD. I don't want to have an admin look in formsweb.cfg, find oid_formsid, and place it in a config file for my code to read, etc. YUK.
Any ideas anyone?
regards,
tt

Answer 1

Hi,
You are seeing the error because the attribute orclApplicationCommon Name is not indexed in the OID Schema.
Oracle Internet Directory uses indexes to make attributes available for searches. If you using an attribute in a Search Filter ( e.g.: orclapplicationcommonname=forms ), you need to index the attribute.
You can use the script $ORACLE_HOME/ldap/catalog.sh to index an attribute.
usage : catalog.sh -connect <connect descriptor> [-add | -delete] [-attr <attribute name> | -file <filename> ]
-connect <DB connect string> specifies the Net8 connect descriptor used to connect to the database.
-add Add catalog Index.
-delete Delete catalog Index.
-attr <attribute name> specifies attribute name.
-file <filename> Filename containing attributes(one per line) which needs to be cataloged.
You can have a look at :
Oracle Internet Directory Administrator's Guide
Appendix A Syntax for LDIF and Command-Line Tools
Atttribute-Management Command-Line Tools
The Catalog Management Tool
for more information about Indexes.
Regards,
Sandeep