Regular expression notation usage for searching

Regular expression notation is a group of symbols and characters that make up a syntax used as a template to match patterns of text. The Report task in the console supports only the wildcard (*) as a regular expression character. If we select the Search function in the console while we are doing a report-related task, we can specify only the wildcard as a regular expression character.

If a regular-expression field displays an asterisk (*) as the default character, that character is interpreted as a wildcard character that indicates that all string values apply. No filtering is done to reduce the number of string values that apply. ISIM supports the set of regular expression characters from Java™ (regex4j).

Regular expressions are commonly used on UNIX platforms and in the PERL 5 language. A free online tutorial, Using regular expressions, is available on the following IBM developerWorks website.

http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/java.

Enter regular expression in the Search for field when the website is displayed, and then select Using regular expressions from the list of topics. We must register with developerWorks to take the tutorial.

Parent topic: IBM Security Identity Manager console reports