What's New in the Oracle Identity Manager Connector for IBM RACF?

This chapter provides an overview of the updates made to the connector and documentation for IBM RACF 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.

Note:

IBM RACF does not support the entry of non-ASCII characters. Refer to Chapter 4 for more information about this limitation.

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 2: Copying the Connector Files" section specifies the destination directory into which you must copy the resource bundle files during the deployment procedure.
The "Step 3: 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.
Chapter 4, "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.

Changes in the IT Resource Definition

The following changes have been documented in the "Defining IT Resources" section:

The IsDebug parameter has been added.
The values accepted by the AutoRetry and IsSecure IT resource parameters are not case-sensitive.

Documentation-Specific Updates

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

Oracle Identity Manager uses an IBM RACF user account to connect to and exchange data with IBM RACF. The "Step 1: Verifying Deployment Requirements" section provides information about the minimum rights that must be assigned to this user account.
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:
In the "Step 4: Configuring the Target System" section, the steps of the procedure have been reorganized. In Steps 6 and 7 of this procedure, the names of attributes to be assigned to the mainframe user that you create have been modified. You specify the details of this mainframe user while defining the IT resource.
In the "Step 7: Configuring Reconciliation"section, instructions to create the scheduled tasks for lookup fields and user reconciliation have been added.
Instructions in the "Step 9: Configuring SSL" section have been reworded.
Instructions to use Oracle Identity Manager for linking multiple installations of IBM RACF are given in the "Configuring the Connector for Multiple Installations of the Target System" section.
Appendix A provides information about attribute mappings between Oracle Identity Manager and IBM RACF.