Oracle® Identity Manager Release Notes
Release 9.0.1.2
B32467-01
 

 

Oracle® Identity Manager

Release Notes

Release 9.0.1.2

Part No. B32467-01

December 2006

This document contains release notes for Oracle Identity Manager Release 9.0.1.2. It includes these topics:


Notes:

  • Oracle Identity Manager was previously known as Oracle Xellerate Identity Provisioning.

  • Oracle Identity Manager Connectors, which were previously referred to as resource adapters, are no longer bundled with Oracle Identity Manager. Oracle Identity Manager Connectors are now distributed several times a year in the Oracle Identity Manager Connector Pack, independent from Oracle Identity Manager.



See Also:

The following documentation, located on your installation media, for detailed information on Oracle Identity Manager:
  • Oracle Identity Manager Release Release Notes (9.0.1.1)

  • Oracle Identity Manager Installation Guide for JBoss

  • Oracle Identity Manager Installation Guide for WebLogic

  • Oracle Identity Manager Installation Guide for WebSphere

  • Oracle Identity Manager Best Practices Guide

  • Oracle Identity Manager Design Console Guide

  • Oracle Identity Manager Administrative and User Console Guide

  • Oracle Identity Manager Administrative and User Console Customization Guide

  • Oracle Identity Manager Tools Reference Guide

  • Oracle Identity Manager API Usage Guide

  • Oracle Identity Manager Audit Report Developer's Guide

  • Oracle Identity Manager Glossary of Terms


1 What's New in Oracle Identity Manager?

Oracle Identity Manager Release 9.0.1.2 includes the following enhancements:

2 Certified Configurations

Oracle Identity Manager Release 9.0.1.2 supports the same certified configurations as Release 9.0.1.1 along with the following application servers:


See Also:

Oracle Identity Management 10g (10.1.4.0.1) certification information on Oracle Technology Network at

http://www.oracle.com/technology


3 Known Issues and Workarounds

This section describes known issues and their workarounds for Oracle Identity Manager Release 9.0.1.2. It contains the following topics:

3.1 Exception Thrown with WebSphere 5.1.1.12 (Bug 5607996)

The following exception is thrown when running Oracle Identity Manager with WebSphere 5.1.1.12:

451d6f5e J2CXAResource W J2CA0007W: An exception
occurred while invoking method setsetMcfPassword on
com.ibm.ejs.jms.JMSManagedQue
ueSessionFactory used by resource
JMS$xlConnectionFactory$JMSManagedConnection@232058728 :
com.ibm.ws.security.util.InvalidPasswordDecodingException

The preceding exception is thrown when WebSphere 5.1.1.12 attempts to decode an unencoded password. You can safely ignore this exception. For more information on this exception, search for APAR PK32670 on IBM's technical support Web site at

http://www.ibm.com/support/us/

3.2 Challenge Questions Containing ^ Characters are Truncated (Bug 5709339)

If a challenge question contains a ^ character, any text following the character is truncated. To resolve this issue, do not use ^ characters in your challenge questions.

3.3 Wildcard Search Throws Error (Bug 5716703)

An error is thrown if you perform a search that includes the wildcard character (*) and if the result set contains more than 1,000 records. When this occurs, the Administrative and User Console does not display any records. To resolve this issue, enter more specific search criteria.

4 Resolved Issues

Table 1 lists issues that have been resolved in Release 9.0.1.2.

Table 1 Resolved issues in Release 9.0.1.2

Issue # Description

5181060

View link displayed for disable requests when no form attached.

5483353

Editing an access policy redirects user to the first access policy.

5487682

Check box for a resource object is not disabled after adding the object to the resource list.

5493930

Access policy is evaluated before the password policy.

5506086

Manual inserts are not allowed for standard approval tasks.

5520817

Slow performance when opening pending approvals and open tasks.

5520826

Slow performance when attempting to load All Directs from a user group that contains a large number of users.

5520834

Slow performance when opening the Request Details page.

5524288

The descriptive field request does not display when create an enable, disable, or revoke request.

5547381

Requests to disable or revoke a resource can be made without first selecting an instance.

5554233

A System Administrator error occurs when creating requests with multiple dependent objects.

5557188

User search does not ignore trailing white space.

5571006

Administrative and User Console does not lock the user account while its being edited by an administrator.

5571143

When a Generic Resource Approval Process is assigned to Request Target Users Manager for approval, the request fails if is made by the same manager who requested the resource for the target user.

5572632

Entries in custom fields not sorting according to selected sort order.

5575280

Remove link in revocation request displays all resource dependencies.

5587175

UDF field of type lookupfield with an assigned default value does not save the default value if the visible property is set to false.

5592661

The internal user in the discovery tag in the xlconfig.xml file causes an authentication error.

5593173

After a resource is revoked, it cannot be reprovisioned for approvals with an access policy.

5599392

Errors are written to the log file when importing an XML file if the file has already been imported and some of the data contained in the XML file contains is already.

5602502

Challenge questions are truncated after any parentheses they contain

5607653

Request does not trigger the approval process for certain scenarios related to resource dependencies.

5608363

Provisioning status remains set to Waiting for certain scenarios related to resource dependencies.

5620929

The password policy check for dictionary words does not function properly.

5621297

Deployment Manager exports forms that have been removed as children of a parent form.

5621321

Deployment Manager exports deleted mappings when populating form fields.

5632895

The data type of the SVP_FIELD_VALUE column in the SVP table has been changed to VARCHAR2(2000) to support longer IT resource input parameters.

5635674

Cannot filter custom proxy API results.

5635797

tcNotAtomicProcessException exception thrown when adding tasks to certain resources.

5635863

A date of 1969 displays in the actual end date field in the details for open tasks.

5648007

Cannot designate revokable statuses for custom objects

5593239

Email notification fails when a task is assigned with the task assgnment adapter.

5655977

Cannot add a task to the Xellerate User provisioning process

5641416

Error message "You must provide an integer value for 'Integer' One or more fields have illegal values" displays twice when entering characters in an integer field.

5571862

Design Console throws a null pointer exception when saving a lookup column name.

5654150

Exception thrown when importing XML files.


5 API Changes

The following API changes were made in Release 9.0.1.2:

6 Documentation Accessibility

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TTY Access to Oracle Support Services

Oracle provides dedicated Text Telephone (TTY) access to Oracle Support Services within the United States of America 24 hours a day, seven days a week. For TTY support, call 800.446.2398.


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