What's New in the Oracle Identity Manager Connector for PeopleSoft Employee Reconciliation?

This chapter provides an overview of the updates made to the software and documentation for the PeopleSoft 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.

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.

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.

Specifying the Number of Records to Be Reconciled

In this release of the connector, you can specify the number of records to be reconciled. This feature is described in the "Specifying the Number of Records to Be Reconciled" section.

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 PT 8.45 - 8.47.

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

Timeout Feature During Reconciliation

In this release of the connector, you can specify the number of retries and the delay between retries for connection attempts from Oracle Identity Manager to the target system. The "Defining IT Resources" section, describes the following parameters that are used to implement this feature:

• NumberOfRetries

• DelayBetweenRetries

Documentation-Specific Updates

The following documentation-specific update has been made in this release of the guide:

• Instructions in the "Files and Directories That Comprise the Connector" section have been revised.

• Information from Appendix B, "Encrypting a New Oracle Identity Manager Password" of the earlier release of this guide has been moved to the "Encrypting a New Oracle Identity Manager Password" section. The old Appendix B has been removed.

• Information from Appendix C, "Adding Custom Attributes for Reconciliation" of the earlier release of this guide has been moved to the "Adding Custom Attributes for Reconciliation" section. The old Appendix C has been removed.

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