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

Identity Manager 14.x

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.

See the RFC 4511