What's New in the Oracle Identity Manager Connector for SAP Employee Reconciliation?

This chapter provides an overview of the updates made to the connector and documentation for SAP Employee Reconciliation 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.

See Also: Oracle Identity Manager Release Notes

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 2: Copying the Connector Files and External Code" section provides 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.

• A new IT resource parameter has been added to carry language code information to the target system. This parameter is described in the "Defining IT Resources" section.

• Changes have been made in 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.

External Code Files are Not Bundled in the Connector Installation Media Directory

The sapjco.jar file is not bundled with the rest of the connector files on the installation media directory. Instead, instructions to download this file are provided in the "Step 2: Copying the Connector Files and External Code".

Changes in the Known Issues List

The following items have been removed from the Known Issues list in Chapter 4:

• The issue about correctly specifying the Recon Key parameter value

• The issue about mentioning the name of the resource object in the scheduled task definition

Documentation-Specific Updates

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

• In the "Supported Functionality" section, the descriptions of some of the functions have been reworded.

• In the "Step 1: Verifying Deployment Requirements"section, the "External code" requirement has been broken down into requirements for Microsoft Windows and UNIX systems.

• Instructions to configure SAP Employee Reconciliation have been reworded in the "Step 1: Verifying Deployment Requirements"section.

• Instructions to copy the connector JAR files to all the nodes of a clustered environment have been added in the following sections:

  • Step 2: Copying the Connector Files and External Code section

  • Step 3: Configuring the Oracle Identity Manager Server

• Instructions and pointers to information about configuring trusted source reconciliation have been moved to the "Configuring Trusted Source Reconciliation" section.

• Changes in the attributes listed in the "Specifying Values for the Scheduled Task Attributes" section:

  The Server parameter has been removed.

  The following parameters have been added:

  • ReconKey

  • SAPUserResourceObject

  • SAPResourceObjectUserId

  • FirstTimeReconRecords

  • InfoType

  • EmpStatus

  • InfoTypeStatus

  • RecordLimit

• Instructions in the "Step 7: Configuring SNC to Secure Communication Between Oracle Identity Manager and the Target System" section have been reworded.

• Instructions to use Oracle Identity Manager for linking multiple installations of SAP Employee Reconciliation 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 SAP Employee Reconciliation.

• The "Supported Platforms" section has been removed.