What's New in the Oracle Identity Manager Connector for Oracle e-Business Employee Reconciliation?

This chapter provides an overview of the updates made to the software and documentation for the Oracle e-Business Employee Reconciliation 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.

Changes in the List of Supported Target Systems

In the "Step 1: Verifying Deployment Requirements" section, the list of supported target systems has been modified. This release of the connector also supports Oracle e-Business Suite 12.0.1.

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 "Specifying Values for the Scheduled Task Attributes" section, the attributes of these scheduled tasks are described.

Configuring Trusted Source Reconciliation

In earlier releases, when you imported the connector XML file, the target system was automatically designated the trusted source for reconciliation. In this release, to configure trusted source reconciliation, you must import the XellOraEmp.xml file and configure the scheduled task for trusted source reconciliation. The following sections of the guide cover this new feature:

• Files and Directories That Comprise the Connector

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

• Configuring Trusted Source Reconciliation

• Employee Reconciliation Scheduled Tasks

Partial Reconciliation

You can customize the reconciliation process by specifying the subset of added or modified target system records that must be reconciled. This is described in the "Partial Reconciliation" section.

Batched Reconciliation

In this release of the connector, the BatchSize and NumOfBatches attributes have been added to the reconciliation scheduled task definition. By specifying values for these attributes, you can reconcile users in various batches. The scheduled task attributes are discussed in the "Batched Reconciliation" 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.

Adding Custom Attributes

This release of the connector supports the adding of custom attributes for reconciliation. This feature is described in the "Adding Custom Attributes for Reconciliation" 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.

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

• In the Known Issues list in Chapter 5, the following changes have been made:

  • The issue about not being able to reconcile data containing special characters has been removed.

  • This release of the connector does not support the Japanese language. This point has been added.