What's New in the Oracle Identity Manager Connector for IBM RACF?

This chapter provides an overview of the updates made to the software and documentation for the IBM RACF Standard connector in releases 9.0.3 of the Oracle Identity Manager connector pack.

See Also:

The 9.0.2 release of this guide for information about updates that were new for the 9.0.2 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.

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.

Modification in Reconciliation Functionality

The following changes have been made in reconciliation functionality:

• Two tasks are used to perform user reconciliation. The first task generates reconciliation data. The second task collects the generated reconciliation data and sends it to Oracle Identity Manager.

• 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 "Partial Reconciliation" .

• In this release of the connector, user reconciliation scheduled task is added with attributes such as BatchSize and NumberOfBatches. By specifying values for these attributes, you can reconcile users in various batches. These attributes are discussed in the "Batched Reconciliation" section.

• This release of the connector also supports trusted source reconciliation. This feature is discussed in the "Configuring Trusted Source Reconciliation" section.

  There are two connector XML files in the connector installation media directory, one each for trusted and nontrusted source reconciliation. These files are described in the "Files and Directories That Comprise the Connector" section. The procedure to describe either of these XML files is described in the "Step 6: Importing the Connector XML Files" section.

New User Reconciliation Scheduled Tasks

The user reconciliation scheduled task has been divided into two tasks. You can specify filter conditions that the reconciliation engine must apply during reconciliation. The attributes for these new scheduled tasks are described in the following sections:

• Submitjob User Reconciliation Scheduled Task

• GetData User Reconciliation Scheduled Task

Testing Utility

The testing utility has been added in this release of the connector. Information about the files that constitute this utility and the procedure to use it has been discussed in the "Running Test Cases" section.

Documentation-Specific Updates

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

• Instructions in the "Files and Directories That Comprise 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 in earlier releases of this guide has been moved to Chapter 3.