What's New in the Oracle Identity Manager Connector for BMC Remedy User Management?

This chapter provides an overview of the updates made to the software and documentation for the BMC Remedy User Management connector in release 9.0.4 of the Oracle Identity Manager connector pack.

See Also:

The 9.0.3 release of this guide for information about updates that were new for the 9.0.3 release

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 updates made to this release of the connector software:

Configuring Reconciliation

This release provides features that enable you to customize the reconciliation module. Information about connector customization has been provided in the following sections:

• Batched Reconciliation

• Partial Reconciliation

Configuring Attribute Mappings

The connector is preconfigured to support 36 target system attributes. If required, you can add custom attribute mappings by following the procedure described in the following sections:

• Adding Custom Attributes for Reconciliation

• Adding Custom Attributes for Provisioning

Separate Scheduled Tasks for Trusted and Nontrusted Source Reconciliation

In this release of the connector, there are separate user reconciliation scheduled tasks for trusted and nontrusted source reconciliation. In the "User Reconciliation Scheduled Tasks" section, the attributes of these scheduled tasks are described.

Changes in the IT Resource Definition

The following changes have been made in the "Defining IT Resources" section:

The IsDebug parameter has been made redundant by the revised exception logging functionality in this release. This parameter has been removed from the IT resource definition.

The TimeStamp parameter has been replaced by the TrustedTimeStamp and NonTrustedTimeStamp parameters, for trusted and nontrusted source reconciliation respectively.

Enhanced Testing Utility

The testing utility provided with this release automates most of the work involved in postdeployment testing of the connector. Information about the files that constitute the testing utility and the procedure involved in the utility has been included in the following sections:

• Files and Directories That Comprise the Connector

• Step 3: Copying the Connector Files and External Code Files

• Testing the Connector

Documentation-Specific Updates

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

• Instructions in the "Determining the Release Number of the Connector" section have been revised.

• Instructions to enable logging for this connector are given in the "Enabling Logging" section.

• Some of the sections that were in Chapter 2 in earlier releases of this guide have been moved to Chapter 3, "Configuring the Connector".