What's New in the Oracle Identity Manager Connector for Siebel Enterprise Applications?

This chapter provides an overview of the updates made to the connector and documentation for Siebel Enterprise Applications 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 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 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.

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.
Oracle Identity Manager uses a Siebel Enterprise Applications user account to connect to and exchange data with Siebel Enterprise Applications. 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 Siebel Enterprise Applications 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 Siebel Enterprise Applications.