What's New in the Oracle Identity Manager Connector for Oracle e-Business User Management?

This chapter provides an overview of the updates made to the connector and documentation for Oracle e-Business 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 and External Code" 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.
Chapter 4, "Known Issues" discusses two new issues related to the use of non-English locales.

Incorporation of Trusted Source Reconciliation Functionality

The following sections pertaining to the incorporation of trusted source reconciliation functionality have been added:

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.

Specifying Whether or Not Users Must Change Their Passwords at First Login

The ResetPswdOnFirstLogon parameter has been added in the "Defining IT Resources" section. You can use this parameter to specify whether or not users must be prompted to change their passwords the first time they log in.

Changes in the List of Adapters to Be Compiled

The adpORACLEAPPSLOCKUSER and adpORACLEAPPSUNLOCKUSER adapters have been removed from the list of adapters in the "Step 7: Compiling Adapters" section.

Changes to the List of Known Issues

The following item has been removed from the Known Issues list in Chapter 4:

The connector does not incorporate the Lock User and Unlock User functionality.

Documentation-Specific Updates

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

If you want to link a newly created user account with an employee account, then you must ensure that the OracleHR.Employees lookup field is populated. For this, you must install the Oracle e-Business Employee Reconciliation connector and reconcile employee data. A note explaining this has been added in the "Provisioning Module" section.
In the "Step 1: Verifying Deployment Requirements" section, the supported target system has been changed to Oracle e-Business Suite 11.5.10.
Oracle Identity Manager uses a Oracle e-Business User Management user account to connect to and exchange data with Oracle e-Business User Management. 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:
Instructions and pointers to information about configuring trusted source reconciliation have been moved to the "Configuring Trusted Source Reconciliation" section.
Instructions to use Oracle Identity Manager for linking multiple installations of Oracle e-Business User Management 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 Oracle e-Business User Management.