XMarkedForDeletion = 2

Question

Hi all, 
 I would like to understand why on a custom TS I had a lot of UNSAccountB with the field XMarkedForDeletion with value 2 (Not present on Target System). 
 This custom target system is managed by a script that update the UNSAccountB. No other synchronization is active. 
 The script never set this field. 
 Could you exlain when and why this field is used by 1IDM ? 
 What are the associated values ? the default value should be null or 0 ? 
 The 1IDM version is 8.0.1 
 Thank you very much and best regards 
 Ermes

Markus Weiss-Ehlers · Answer

You can find the meaning of the bits from the following community thread https://www.quest.com/community/one-identity/identity-manager/f/identity-manager-forum/20993/xmarked-for-deletion-values 
 If some objects marked as outstanding there are normally two options how that happened. A synchronization had been run on this type of object and the workflow was configured to mark missing objects on the target system as outstanding. The second option, someone has marked the objects as outstanding in your script. Please see the sample code that demonstrates how to do that. This should ease your search. 
 ' The script loads an entity specified by a XObjectKey, adds the flag OutStanding to the state and saves the entity to the database. 
Public Sub CCC_Entity_MarkAsOutstanding(XObjectKey As String)
 
 ' Create a DBObjectKey based on the XML ObjectKey
 Dim dbObjectKey As New DbObjectKey(XObjectKey)
 
 
 ' Create an empty entity
 Dim entity As IEntity = Nothing
 
 ' Try to load the entity from the database using the DBObjectKey
 If Session.Source.TryGet(dbObjectKey, entity) Then
 ' If entity was created successfully
 
 ' Set the state of the entity to OutStanding
 entity.State = entity.State Or EntityState.OutStanding
 
 ' Save the entity to the database
 Using uow = Session.StartUnitOfWork()
 
 ' put the entity to save in the unit of work
 uow.Put(entity)
 
 ' The entities will be saved here!
 uow.Commit()
 End Using
 End If
 
End Sub

Markus Weiss-Ehlers · Answer

The xmarkedfordeletion value bit mask definitions are: 
 0=Marked for Delete 1=Not found in TargetSystem 2=Contains locked properties 
 So Value = 2 => Bit 1 set to True => Not found in TargetSystem. 
 Normal, means no Bit set => Value = 0 
 And, ootb there are no other processes setting this value.