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

This chapter provides an overview of the updates made to the software and documentation for the Database 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 updates made to this release of the connector software.

Trusted Source Reconciliation

This release of the connector supports trusted source reconciliation. The required information has been included at appropriate places in the guide.

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 "Configuring the Reconciliation Scheduled Tasks" section, the attributes of these scheduled tasks are described.

Timeout Support

This release of the connector provides timeout support for provisioning and reconciliation. In the "Defining IT Resources" section, the IT resource parameters that are used to implement this feature are described.

Partial Reconciliation

You can customize the reconciliation process by specifying the subset of added or modified target system records that must be reconciled. This feature is discussed in the following section:

• Partial Reconciliation

Specifying the Number of Records to Be Reconciled

In this release, you can specify the number of records to be reconciled by using the Record Size user reconciliation scheduled task attribute. This is described in the "Specifying the Number of Records to Be Reconciled" section.

Enabling Logging

By following the instructions in the "Enabling Logging" section, you can configure the generation of log information that is specific to the target system.

Secure Connection to the Oracle Database

In this release of the connector, you can set up a secure JDBC connection between Oracle Identity Manager and the Oracle Database only. This feature is not available for the other target systems. This is achieved by using the isSecure parameter, which is described in the "Defining IT Resources" section.

Testing Utility

The testing utility has been added in this release of the connector. The required information has been added in the following sections:

• Files and Directories That Comprise the Connector

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

• Chapter 4, "Testing Connector Functionality"

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 content from the Chapter 2 of the earlier release of this guide has been moved to Chapter 3.