What's New in the Oracle Identity Manager Connector for Database User Management?

This chapter provides an overview of the updates made to the connector and documentation for Database User Management in release 9.0.2 of the Oracle Identity Manager connector pack.

The updates discussed in this chapter are divided into the following categories:

Software Updates

These include updates made to the connector software.
Documentation-Specific Updates

These include major changes made to the connector documentation. These changes are not related to software updates.

Software Updates

This section discusses the following software updates implemented in this release of the connector.

Incorporation of Multilanguage Support

In addition to English, this release of the connector supports the French and Japanese languages. The following are documentation updates pertaining to the incorporation of this feature:

The installation media directory includes resource bundle files for the languages supported by the connector. These resource bundle files are described in the "Files and Directories That Comprise the Connector" section.
The "Step 3: Copying the Connector Files" section specifies the destination directory into which you must copy the resource bundle files during the deployment procedure.
The "Step 4: Configuring the Oracle Identity Manager Server" section describes the procedure to change to the required input locale and to clear content related to connector resource bundles from the server cache.
Two new IT resource parameters have been added to carry country code and language code information to the target system. These parameters are described in the "Defining IT Resources" section.
Chapter 3, "Known Issues" discusses a new issue related to the use of non-English locales.

Determining the Release Number of the Connector

Instructions to determine the release number of the connector are given in the "Determining the Release Number of the Connector" section.

Support for Microsoft SQL Server 2005

This is release of the connector supports Microsoft SQL Server 2005. The required information has been included in the following sections:

Changes Related to the User's Name Attribute in Database User Management

The following change has been made in the display and storage of the user's name:

In the Japanese locale, the display name for a user shows the last name first, followed by the middle name, and then the first name.

Documentation-Specific Updates

The following documentation-specific updates have been made in this release of the guide:

Parts of Chapters 1 and 2 have been restructured and reworded to make it easier to navigate to information about a specific database. For example, the table in the "Supported Functionality" section has been divided into two tables, one each for the Login and User database access entity types.
The following changes have been made in the Database Access (Login) table of the "Supported Functionality" section:
- The Add Role function has been renamed as the Add Role or Grant function.
- The Enable Login and Disable Login functions are available only on IBM DB2 UDB. This has been mentioned in this table.
- A note has been added clarifying that running the Create Login (Provisioning) function on Oracle Database would result in the creation of a user, but would not grant any privileges to the user. You must perform some additional steps to provide the required privileges.
- Descriptions have been added for the following functions:
  - Default DB Updated (Reconciliation)
  - Full Name Updated (Reconciliation)
  - Default Role Updated (Reconciliation)
  - Default Language Updated (Reconciliation)
- The Password Updated function for the login database access entity is not supported on IBM DB2 UDB.
- The Full Name Updated function for the login database access entity is supported only on Microsoft SQL Server.
Oracle Identity Manager uses a target system user account to connect to and exchange data with the target system. The "Step 1: Verifying Deployment Requirements" section provides information about the minimum rights that must be assigned to this user account.
Oracle Database 10g has been added to the list of supported target systems given in the "Step 1: Verifying Deployment Requirements" section. Instructions specific to Oracle Database 10g have been added at appropriate places in the guide.
Instructions to copy the connector JAR files and adapter files to all the nodes of a clustered environment have been added in the following sections:
The instructions given in the "Step 6: Importing the Connector XML Files" section have been reworded.
Instructions to enable reconciliation in Oracle Identity Manager release 9.0.1 have been added in the "Enabling Reconciliation in Oracle Identity Manager Release 9.0.1" section.
Instructions to use Oracle Identity Manager for linking multiple installations of the target system are given in the "Configuring the Connector for Multiple Installations of the Target System".