LDAP Query - Greater than and Less than operators not working

Products

• CA Identity Suite
• CA Identity Manager

Issue/Introduction

When creating a Policy Xpress policy in CA Identity Manager (IM), the LDAP operators fail when using the greater than (>) and less than (<) syntax.

Environment

Release :

14.2, 14.3, 14.4

Component :

CA IDENTITY SUITE (VIRTUAL APPLIANCE)

CA IDENTITY MANAGER

Cause

This is not a code issue.  This is working as designed.

Resolution

LDAP does not work with > or < it needs to be >= or <=

 

Working

attribute=>X

attribute <= X

Not Working

attribute>X

attribute<X

 

Additional Information

This is behavior is correct and in line with the LDAP RFC Standards.

 

https://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc4511.txt