What's New in Oracle Identity Manager Connector for Oracle E-Business Employee Reconciliation?

This chapter provides an overview of the updates made to the software and documentation for the Oracle E-Business Employee Reconciliation connector in release 9.0.4.3.

See Also:

The earlier release of this guide for information about updates that were new for that release

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 sections discuss updates made from release 9.0.4 to the current release of the connector:

• Software Updates in Release 9.0.4.1_6728655

• Software Updates in Release 9.0.4.2

• Software Updates in Release 9.0.4.3

Software Updates in Release 9.0.4.1_6728655

The following are software updates in release 9.0.4.1_6728655:

• Script to Create the Target System Account for Connector Operations

• Resolved Issues in Release 9.0.4.1_6728655

Script to Create the Target System Account for Connector Operations

Instead of using the apps target system account for connector operations, you can now use scripts provided in the connector installation package to create an account and assign the minimum required privileges to the account.

See "Configuring the Target System" for more information.

Resolved Issues in Release 9.0.4.1_6728655

The following are issues resolved in release 9.0.4.1_6728655:

Bug Number	Issue	Resolution
6006892 and 6656960	You had to use the APPS User with full privileges for connector operations.	You can now create a target system account for connector operations with the required privileges. Scripts have been provided in the connector installation package for creating this target system account. See "Configuring the Target System" for more information.

Software Updates in Release 9.0.4.2

The following are software updates in release 9.0.4.2:

• Using the Connector Installer

• Support for New Languages

• Software Updates in Release 9.0.4.1_6728655

Using the Connector Installer

From Oracle Identity Manager release 9.1.0 onward, the Administrative and User Console provides the Connector Installer feature. This feature can be used to automate the connector installation procedure.

See "Installing the Connector on Oracle Identity Manager Release 9.1.0 or Later" for details.

Support for New Languages

The following languages have been added to the list of supported languages:

• Arabic

• Japanese

See "Multilanguage Support" for more information.

Resolved Issues in Release 9.0.4.2

The following are issues resolved in release 9.0.4.2:

Bug Number	Issue	Resolution
6924495	If a new attribute added for reconciliation had the same column name as an existing attribute, then the values of the attribute were not reconciled correctly. This occurred even if both columns were in different tables in the target system database.	This issue has been resolved. An attribute that you add for reconciliation can have the same column name as that of an existing mapped attribute.

Software Updates in Release 9.0.4.3

The following are software updates in release 9.0.4.3:

• The OracleHREmp.Organization Name parameter has been removed from the following sections:

  • "Configuring the IT Resource"

  • "Importing the Connector XML File"

• In "Employee Reconciliation Scheduled Tasks", the name of the scheduled task has been changed from Reconcile Ora HR Emp Non Trusted to Reconcile Ora HR Emp Target Resource.

• The following are issues resolved in release 9.0.4.3:

  Bug Number	Issue	Resolution
  7420297	You use the XellerateOrganization scheduled task attribute to specify the Oracle Identity Manager organization into which users must be reconciled. However, this attribute was ignored and users were always reconciled into the Xellerate Users organization during reconciliation.	This issue has been resolved. Users are reconciled into the organization whose name you specify as the value of the XellerateOrganization attribute. See "Employee Reconciliation Scheduled Tasks" for more information. Note: The organization you specify must exist in Oracle Identity Manager.

  
  

Documentation-Specific Updates

The following documentation-specific updates have been made from release 9.0.4 to release 9.0.4.3 of the guide:

• The "Tables Used During Reconciliation" section has been added.

• The procedure described in "Adding Custom Attributes for Reconciliation" has been modified.

• Appendix B, "query.properties File" has been added. This appendix describes the variables in the query.properties file.

• In the "Verifying Deployment Requirements" section, changes have been made in the "Target system" row.