IdF Gateway delivers a unique blend of functionality providing virtual/meta capabilities, synchronization services, extended access & authentication services, password management and bi-directionally supporting identity management between distributed systems and mainframes.

Meta Directory; Virtual Identity Store 
Provides a highly scalable, secure, flexible way of synchronizing and managing identity credentials in multiple identity stores and multiple platforms, to dynamically build enterprise identities.

Access & Authentication Services
Allows access and authentication from multiple data sources, exposes identity credentials for multiple directories and application sources.

Access & Authentication Services for Host based systems
Allows for standard LDAP authentication to host based systems (RACF, ACF2, Top Secret & AS/400) Must be used in conjunction with IdF Advanced Adapters.

Delegate Authentication Services
Delegate internal authentication services to external data sources for customized authentication services allowing you to centralize or de-centralize your administration.

Policy Services
Policy Services Allows  group and policy information to be used by the requesting application or resource.

Password Management
Provides bidirectional synchronization of passwords between source and target identity 
repositories, whether the source and/or target system is a directory, database, application or resource.

Password Management for Host base Systems
Provides bidirectional synchronization of  passwords between source and target identity 
repositories, whether the source and/or target system is a directory, database, application or resources, including host based systems (RACF, ACF2, Top Secret & AS/400) Must be used in conjunction with IdF Advanced Adapters.

Reconciliation Services 
Reconcile identity credentials against the source and target system

Provisioning of Host based Systems
Allows for provisioning of host based systems (RACF, ACF2, Top Secret  & AS/400) Must be used in conjunction with IdF Advanced Adapters.

Mainframe Security Policy Integration
Ability to push native security changes and polices from z/OS mainframe to distributed systems. Must be used in conjunction with IdF Advanced Adapters.

iSeries (AS400) Security Policy Integration
Ability to push native security changes and polices from AS/400 to distributed systems. Must be used in conjunction with IdF Advanced Adapters.

Fine Grain Access Control
Provide Access Control List and/or extend current enterprises identity management system's rule-based and role based access controls.

Security
IdF Gateway supports Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) and Transport Layer Security (TLS) standards using TCP/IP or IBM MQ Series.  All data communication with host based systems is AES 128 Bit Encrypted.

Fail over & Fault Tolerance
IdF Gateway has the capability for the gateway to fail over to another server and resynchronize when server comes back up.