Oracle® Identity Manager Connector Guide for SAP Enterprise Portal Release 9.0.2 Part Number B32172-01 |
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This chapter provides an overview of the updates made to the connector and documentation for SAP Enterprise Portal in release 9.0.2 of the Oracle Identity Manager connector pack.
The updates discussed in this chapter are divided into the following categories:
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 |
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 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.
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 two new issues 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 Not Bundled in the Connector Pack
External code files are not bundled along with the connector file in the installation media directory. Instead, instructions to download these files are given in the "Downloading the Apache Axis JAR Files" section.
Known Issues Item Removed
In the Known Issues list in Chapter 4, the point about the default date value of 1970-01-01
being used if values for the Valid From and Valid To date fields are not specified has been removed.
The following documentation-specific updates have been made in this release of the guide:
Oracle Identity Manager uses a SAP Enterprise Portal user account to connect to and exchange data with SAP Enterprise Portal. The "Step 1: Verifying Deployment Requirements" section provides information about the minimum rights that must be assigned to this user account.
In the "Step 2: Copying the Connector Files and External Code", instructions to download and copy the external code files have been reworded.
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 SAP Enterprise Portal are given in the "Configuring the Connector for Multiple Installations of the Target System" section.
Changes have been made to the procedure described in the "Running Test Cases" section to accommodate the multilanguage support feature.
The "Supported Platforms" section has been removed.