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Components Optim Test Data Management
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Created on Feb 7, 2025

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Enable TDM to create a trusted connection and user switching

See this idea on ideas.ibm.com

In a Db2 environment with very strict security and RCAC enabled to secure data on the row level, it is needed to know the actual userid that is driving the request.

Application servers usually connect using a system account and this is also commonly the way TDM is configured, this is totally fine and desirable, but in that case there needs to be a mechanism to configure TDM to create a trusted connection and request a user switch.

Since TDM uses CLI it can't be configured outside of the application, it will require a code change which really shouldn't be to hard to implement.

https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/db2/11.5?topic=security-using-trusted-contexts-trusted-connections

There will also need to be a command line variable and/or config file variable which will be used to pass the userid used in the switch.

With this implemented a trusted context can be established between the TDM server and the Db2 database, all users with access to and logged in to the TDM server are trusted and can use the authorizations from the system account, but importantly, since the real userid is now known they can be checked against the RCAC rules if they are allowed to both extract or load the data in question. If a user is not permitted to see a row, they will also not be allowed to insert, update or delete such row with RCAC permissions in place.

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