This chapter provides an overview of the updates made to the software and documentation for the SAP Enterprise Portal connector in release 9.0.4.12.
Note:
Release 9.0.4.12 of the connector comes after release 9.0.4.3. Release numbers from 9.0.4.4 through 9.0.4.11 have not been used.
The updates discussed in this chapter are divided into the following categories:
This section describes updates made to the connector software. This section also points out the sections of this guide that have been changed in response to each software update.
Documentation-Specific Updates
These include major changes made to this guide. For example, the relocation of a section from the second chapter to the third chapter is a documentation-specific update. These changes are not related to software updates.
See Also:
Oracle Identity Manager Release Notes
The following sections discuss software updates:
The following are the software updates in release 9.0.4.12:
From this release onward, the connector can be installed and used on Oracle Identity Manager 11g release 1 (11.1.1). Where applicable, instructions specific to this Oracle Identity Manager release have been added in the guide.
See Section 1.1, "Certified Components" for the full list of certified Oracle Identity Manager releases.
From this release onward, the connector provides support for request-based provisioning on Oracle Identity Manager 11g release 1 (11.1.1).
See Section 3.6.2, "Request-Based Provisioning" for more information.
From this release onward, SAP Enterprise Portal 7.01 with SP3 has been added to the list of supported target systems.
See Section 1.1, "Certified Components" for the full list of supported target systems.
The following is a software update in release 9.0.4.3:
The following are issues that have been resolved in release 9.0.4.3:
| Bug Number | Issue | Resolution |
|---|---|---|
|
7496046 |
During incremental reconciliation, all the users created on a given day were fetched into Oracle Identity Manager. |
This issue has been resolved. Now, during incremental reconciliation, only user records that are added or modified after the time stamp are fetched into Oracle Identity Manager. |
|
8682180 |
The status of the Delete User task was Rejected when the connector was configured for identity reconciliation (trusted source) mode. In addition, the status of the user remained at provisioned even after the corresponding OIM User was deleted. |
This issue has been resolved. After the Delete User operation, the status of the user changes to Revoked and Delete User task changes to Completed. |
The following are software updates in release 9.0.4.2:
This release of the connector supports SAP Enterprise Portal 7.0 SP15. Versions of the target system supported by earlier releases of the connector are desupported from this release onward.
See "Verifying Deployment Requirements" on page 2-1 for more information.
Batched reconciliation is supported from this release onward. The BatchSize attribute has been introduced in the SAPEP UserRecon scheduled task. The FirstTimeReconRecords attribute has been removed from the scheduled task.
See "User Reconciliation Scheduled Task" for more information.
Earlier releases of the connector required you to copy files from the following directory during the deployment procedure:
SAPEP_HOME/EP6J/j2ee/j2ee_00/cluster/server/
This requirement has been removed.
The following are some minor updates made in this release:
The CustomizedReconQuery parameter has been moved from the IT resource to the SAPEP UserRecon scheduled task. In addition, the TrustedResourceObject attribute has been added to this scheduled task. See "User Reconciliation Scheduled Task" for more information.
In "Configuring Provisioning" on page 3-6, the SAP EP Email Modify adapter has been added to the list of adapters to be compiled when you deploy the connector.
In "Testing Partial Reconciliation", the list of examples for testing partial reconciliation has been modified.
From the "Known Issues" chapter, the following point has been removed:
"The configuration details of the SAP Enterprise Portal database are in plaintext in the sapum.properties file, the location of which is available in the IT resource definition. This poses a security threat."
The SAPEPConnector.jar file has been split into two files, SAPEPConnector.jar and SAPEPRecon.jar. Corresponding changes have been made in the following sections:
Files and Directories That Comprise the Connector on page 1-9
Determining the Release Number of the Connector on page 1-10
The following sections discuss documentation-specific updates:
The following documentation-specific update has been made in revision "7" of release 9.0.4.12:
Information regarding the com.sap.pdk.JavaDeveloper role has been added to Section 2.3.3, "Creating a Target System User Account for Connector Operations."
The following documentation-specific updates have been made in revision "6" of release 9.0.4.12:
In the "Certified Components" section, changes have been made to the "Infrastructure requirements" row.
Information in the "Using the Apache Axis JAR Files" section has been modified. In addition, the following sections have been added:
The following are documentation-specific updates in release 9.0.4.3:
In "Configuring Scheduled Tasks on Oracle Identity Manager Release 9.0.1 Through 9.0.3.2", the status that Oracle Identity Manager assigns to a task after completing the maximum number of retries has been changed from FAILED to ERROR.
In the "Multilanguage Support" on page 1-4, Arabic has been added to the list of languages that the connector supports.
In the "Testing Partial Reconciliation" section, a minor change in the example for the CustomizedReconQuery parameter has been made.
In the "Defining IT Resources" section, the SOAPAdminUserID and SOAPAdminPassword parameters have been added. There parameters have been supported from release 9.0.4.2. Similarly, the SAPUMLocation parameter has been deleted. This parameter has been deleted from release 9.0.4.2.
The "Configuring SSL to Secure Communication Between Oracle Identity Manager and the Target System" section has been added.
The following item has been removed from the "Known Issues" chapter:
The connector does not support Secure Network Communication (SNC) or Secure Sockets Layer (SSL).
In the "Verifying Deployment Requirements" section, changes have been made in the "Target systems" row.
The following are documentation-specific updates in release 9.0.4.2:
In "Reconciled Xellerate User Fields" on page 1-7, the list of fields has been modified.
In "Deploying Web Services on the Target System", the procedure has been modified.
In "Limited Reconciliation", the row for the UserID to uniqueName field mapping has been removed. Some other changes have been made in the names of attributes for groups and roles.
There are no documentation-specific updates in release 9.0.4.1.