Lotus LMS and LDAP

This just in from the "Geez!" department...

We use Lotus LMS and Domino LDAP. We are busy putting employee data into the two directories we serve up via DA. Well, we've got the agents all set to run, data is being populated, but when you look up user details in the LMS the user's location doesn't appear. Not good. I've checked and confirmed via an LDAP browser that the field is visible via LDAP so it looks like an issue with the LMS. Call IBM and they say, yes, it is a known issue that's being coded for, but also the point me to a technote that indicates that this is a field that isn't stored in the LMS, it's only accessed in the LDAP directory. This means you can't run reports based on location - but wait, what if we want to run location based reports???

Well, we've decided to combine to pieces of data into the departmentNumber - the actual department number and the location data. At least our departments and locations are one to one, mostly.

One more thing - there's no "easy" way to do a mass update. Data from LDAP is only updated when the user logs into the LMS. Guess I'll be looking at LEI or maybe Directory Integrator for this little job. 'Cause no one ever needs to do a mass update, nope not me!