Directory Services Markup Language (DSML) provides web-services support on top of the LDAP protocol. It represents directory service information in XML syntax.

QAD provides a required DSML Service as an interface between the various QAD applications and the Directory. The information provided to a QAD application from the DSML Service includes a list of all users who can access the application, along with the role memberships of each user. Each QAD application requires a patch that enables it to communicate to the DSML Service and to synchronize user information based on the user information in the Directory.

During user synchronization, a QAD application makes a DSML search request and then receives a DSML search response. Any data needed for user provisioning not included in the DSML response can be supplied by an attribute mapping file.

To configure user synchronization in an environment managed with the YAB console: