What's New in the Oracle Identity Manager Connector for CA Top Secret?

This chapter provides an overview of the updates made to the software and documentation for the Oracle Identity Manager Connector for CA Top Secret in release 9.0.4.4.

The updates discussed in this chapter are divided into the following categories:

• Software Updates

  This section describes updates made to the connector software.

• Documentation-Specific Updates

  This section describes major changes made to this guide. These changes are not related to software updates.

Software Updates

The following software updates have been made in this connector:

• Software Updates Up To Release 9.0.4.2

• Software Updates in Release 9.0.4.3

• Software Updates in Release 9.0.4.4

Software Updates Up To Release 9.0.4.2

The following are software updates up to release 9.0.4.2:

• The IBM MQ Series protocol for the message transport layer is no longer supported for this connector. All content related to this protocol has been removed from the guide.

• CA Top Secret user profile, group profile, facility, and data set and resource profile commands supported by the Provisioning Agent have been added in "Functionality Supported by the Pioneer Provisioning Agent".

• The list of functions supported by the Provisioning Agent has been updated in "Functionality Supported for Provisioning".

• The commands supported by the Reconciliation Agent have been added in "Functionality Supported by the Voyager Reconciliation Agent".

• The list of functions supported by the Reconciliation Agent has been updated in "Functionality Supported for Reconciliation".

• The list of fields reconciled between Oracle Identity Manager and CA Top Secret has been updated in "Target System Fields Used for Reconciliation and Provisioning".

• The IT resource parameters and their corresponding descriptions and sample values have been updated in "Importing the Connector XML File".

• The procedure to configure the connector for multiple installations of the target system has been added in "Configuring the Connector for Multiple Installations of the Target System".

• Information about reconciliation based on user status has been added in "Configuring Account Status Reconciliation".

• Steps to add a new field for provisioning have been added in "Adding New Fields for Provisioning".

• Known issues related to the following bugs have been added in Chapter 6, "Known Issues":

  • 6668844

  • 6904041

  • 7033009

• Information about integrating the Reconciliation Agent exit with existing Top Secret exits has been added in "Installing the Reconciliation Agent Exit".

Software Updates in Release 9.0.4.3

The following are resolved issues in release 9.0.4.3:

Bug Number	Issue	Resolution
7583557	Passwords were specified in unencrypted format in the beans.xml file, which is a configuration file used by the connector.	This issue has been resolved. You can now use the propertyEncrypt script to encrypt passwords before you copy them into the beans.xml file. See "Encrypting Passwords Used in the beans.xml File" for information about the procedure.

Software Updates in Release 9.0.4.4

The following are software updates in release 9.0.4.4:

• Support for Limited Reconciliation from Multiple Resources

Support for Limited Reconciliation from Multiple Resources

If you use multiple resource objects for reconciliation with the target system, then from this release onward you can specify the resource objects with which you want to associate records of specific user types from the target system. See "Configuring Limited Reconciliation" for more information about this feature.

Documentation-Specific Updates

The following documentation-specific updates have been made in releases 9.0.4.1 through 9.0.4.4:

• The user profile field mappings and resource profile field mappings between Oracle Identity Manager and the target system have been added in "Target System Fields Used for Reconciliation and Provisioning". Appendix A, "Attribute Mapping Between CA Top Secret and Oracle Identity Manager" has been removed.

• The components of the CA Top Secret Advanced connector and the connector architecture for reconciliation and provisioning have been added in "Connector Architecture". Appendix B, "Connector Architecture" has been removed.

• Guidelines that were earlier documented in Chapter 6, "Known Issues" have been moved to "Guidelines on Using the Connector".

• Information about enabling logging on the LDAP Gateway server has been added in "Installing and Configuring the LDAP Gateway".

• In the "Functionality Supported for Reconciliation" section, the following functions have been added:

  • Suspend users until

  • UnSuspend uses until

• In the "User Field Mapping" section, the defaultGroup field has been removed.

• Some corrections have been made in the following sections:

  • Environmental Settings and Requirements

  • Deploying the Reconciliation Agent and Provisioning Agent

  • Installing the Reconciliation Agent Exit

  • Configuring TCP/IP Connection and Starter Tasks

• In the "Certified Languages" section, Arabic has been added to the list of languages that the connector supports.

• In Table 1-1, "Certified Deployment Configurations", changes have been made in the Target Systems row. Information about certified deployment configurations has been removed from "Verifying Deployment Requirements".