What's New in the Oracle Identity Manager Connector for Oracle e-Business User Management?

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

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.

Reconciliation by User Type

In this release, you can configure reconciliation by user type. To do this, you use the User_Type scheduled task attribute. The "User Reconciliation Scheduled Tasks" section describes this attribute.

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

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 following section:

• Batched Reconciliation

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.

Testing Utility

The testing utility has been introduced in this release of the connector. The required information has been added at the appropriate places in the guide.

Adding Custom Attributes

This release of the connector supports the adding of custom attributes for reconciliation and provisioning. This feature is described in the "Adding Custom Attributes for Reconciliation" section and the "Adding Custom Attributes for Provisioning" 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 sections that were in Chapter 2 in earlier releases of this guide have been moved to Chapter 3, "Configuring the Connector".