Oracle® Identity Manager Connector Guide for SAP Employee Reconciliation Release 9.0.4 Part Number E10442-09 |
|
|
View PDF |
This chapter provides an overview of the updates made to the software and documentation for SAP Employee Reconciliation connector in release 9.0.4.8.
See Also:
The earlier release of this guide for information about updates that were new for that releaseThe updates discussed in this chapter are divided into the following categories:
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.
The following sections discuss updates made from release 9.0.4 to the current release of the connector:
The following are software updates in release 9.0.4.1:
There are some changes in the directory structure of the testing utility files. These changes have been made in the "Files and Directories on the Installation Media" section.
In this release, the connector supports Oracle Application Server. Changes related to this software update have been made in the following sections:
Installing the Security Package section
Enabling Logging section
From Chapter 5, "Known Issues", the following item has been removed:
The connector uses the JCO API that supports JDK 1.4 to communicate with SAP Employee Reconciliation. Oracle Identity Manager supports the Oracle Containers for J2EE (OC4J) release that works on JDK 1.5. Therefore, the connector does not support OC4J.
There are no software updates in releases 9.0.4.2.
The following are issues resolved in release 9.0.4.3:
Bug Number | Issue | Resolution |
---|---|---|
7134299 | The employee ID attribute of the target system is mapped to the User ID attribute of the OIM User. If you modified the User ID attribute of an OIM User, then subsequent updates made to the user on the target system were not reconciled. | This issue has been resolved. The PERSONNEL_NUMBER attribute has been added to the predefined set of OIM User attributes. The employee ID attribute of the target system is mapped to both the User ID and the PERSONNEL_NUMBER attribute.
On Oracle Identity Manager, any change made to the User ID attribute is not propagated to the Therefore, updates made on the target system are successfully reconciled even after you change the value of the User ID attribute. |
The following is a software update in release 9.0.4.4:
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" for details.
The following are issues resolved in release 9.0.4.5:
Bug Number | Issue | Resolution |
---|---|---|
7418360 | The java.lang.OutOfMemoryError exception was encountered if a provisioning operation involved a large number of users. |
This issue has been resolved. The connector now supports SAP JCo 3.0. The issue is not encountered when you use SAP custom code files provided along with this version of the SAP JCo.
Note: SAP JCo 3.0 replaces SAP JCo 2.0 and SAP JCo 2.1. It requires JVM version 1.5 or later, and it is incompatible with earlier versions of SAP JCo. See "Verifying Deployment Requirements" for information about the required external files. |
There are no software updates in release 9.0.4.6.
There are no software updates in release 9.0.4.7.
There are no software updates in release 9.0.4.8.
The following sections discuss updates made from release 9.0.4 to the current release of the connector:
The following documentation-specific updates have been made in releases 9.0.4.1 through 9.0.4.7:
The connector cannot be used with an Oracle Identity Manager installation on OC4J. This point is mentioned in the "Known Issues" chapter. Instructions to enable logging on OC4J have been removed from the "Enabling Logging" section.
The following changes have been made in the "Verifying Deployment Requirements" section:
This section provides information about the permissions to be assigned to the target system user account that Oracle Identity Manager uses to connect to and communicate with the target system. This information has been modified.
Information about the certified Oracle Identity Manager releases has been modified.
The JDK requirement has been added.
The following is a documentation-specific update that has been made in release 9.0.4.8:
In the "Multilanguage Support" section, Arabic has been added to the list of languages that the connector supports.