Appendix J: Connectivity improvements

BioMetric and single signon connection

Connector – Biometric identity authentication and single signon for IBM i and System i compliance.

This built in connector offers Database Monitor users a high performance hybrid for IBM i and System i biometric authentication and single signon We developed this connector together, with our partner Tom Secreto of Valid Technologies, CTO and biometric security expert for the VSSA Valid Secure System Authentication solution. Database Monitor users who install Valid Technologies’s VSSA biometric software, considered the industry leading solution for IBM i & i5/OS biometrics, now enjoy identity management and enforcement powered by Database Monitor.

Valid Secure System Authentication® (VSSA) is the answer to today’s business and regulatory needs for strong user authentication. VSSA delivers advanced, proven fingerprint biometric technologies in a secure, compliant, and highly reliable SOA architecture. It adds the user convenience and process efficiencies of ‘touch of a finger’ biometrics to every logon and application throughout the enterprise – at the transaction level. VSSA speed, efficiency, availability, and security make complex passwords, clumsy tokens, and less secure and flexible ‘convenience biometric’ solutions obsolete.

With VSSA you can establish a firm, adaptable, and lasting foundation for user authentication - plus increase user productivity and compliance. VSSA lets you make strong biometric user authentication part of every application - network logons, web portals, 'green screen' programs, and more. So your information assets are protected while password-related IT support costs go down.

Simply put, VSSA eliminates passwords saving time and money while reducing risk of unauthorized access and ensuring people ARE who they say they are when performing activity on the system. Anyplace Database Monitor electronic signatures are used now support biometric authentication at the transaction level, deep into applications, based on configurable logic, without any application programming.

Automated, real time, identity audit at the transaction level, with no programming.

BioMetric signature setup

To set up BioMetric signature perform the following steps

Rename the existing program in the Database Monitor library – IDT401 to IDT401NBM
Rename the existing program in the Database Monitor Library – IDT401BM to IDT401
Enter two new system parameters
- USEBIOMT – Template of 1 Character - Value Y
- BIOPGM – Template of 21 Character – Value library/program for the BioMetric Program to be called
The biometric program to be called must accept the following parameters
- User Id – 32 Char
- Application – Calling Application ie DATATHREAD – 30 Char
- Result – 4 Char
- Desc – 70 Char
The Result should be set to ‘0000’ for a valid authentication. Any other result will be considered a failed authentication