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

This chapter provides an overview of the updates made to the software and documentation for the SAP Employee Reconciliation connector in release 9.0.4 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 9.0.3 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 the following software updates implemented in this release of the connector.

Change in the Version of the Supported sapjco File

The required version of the sapjco file for all supported platforms has been changed from 2.0.10 to 2.1.8. This change has been made in the "Step 1: Verifying Deployment Requirements" section.

Partial Reconciliation

The CustomizedReconQuery parameter has been added to the IT resource definition. You can use this parameter to customize the query that the reconciliation module uses to determine the records to be retrieved from the target system. The CustomizedReconQuery parameter is explained in the following sections:

• Defining IT Resources

• Partial Reconciliation

• Testing Partial 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.

Batched Reconciliation

In this release of the connector, the StartRecord, BatchSize, and NumberofBatches 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 sections:

• Specifying Values for the Scheduled Task Attributes

• Batched Reconciliation

• Testing Batched Reconciliation

Changes in the List of Reconciled Xellerate User Fields

There are changes in the list of fields in the "Reconciled Xellerate User Fields" section.

Changes in the Scheduled Task Attributes

In the "Specifying Values for the Scheduled Task Attributes" section, the following attributes have been removed from the scheduled task definition:

• Password

• ReconKey

• FirstTimeReconRecords

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.

• In the "Step 1: Verifying Deployment Requirements" section, SAP R3 4.6c has been added to the list of supported target systems.