What's New in the Oracle Identity Manager Connector for Oracle Internet Directory?

This chapter provides an overview of the updates made to the connector and documentation for Oracle Internet Directory 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.
Changes have been made to the procedure described in the "Running Test Cases" section to accommodate the multilanguage support feature.
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.

Additions to the Known Issues List

The issue about the Time Zone and Preferred Language lookup tables not displaying any values has been documented in the Known Issues list in Chapter 4.

Documentation-Specific Updates

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

Oracle Identity Manager uses a Oracle Internet Directory user account to connect to and exchange data with Oracle Internet Directory. The "Step 1: Verifying Deployment Requirements" section provides information about the minimum rights that must be assigned to this user account.
In the "Step 3: Copying the Connector Files and External Code" section, changes have been made in the destination directory specified for some of the files.
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".
Instructions to use Oracle Identity Manager for linking multiple installations of Oracle Internet Directory 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 Internet Directory.