What's New in the Oracle Identity Manager Connector for IBM RACF?

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

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. This section also points out the sections of this guide that have been changed in response to each software update.

• 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:

• IBM RACF user profile, group profile, and data set and resource profile commands supported by the Provisioning Agent have been added in the "Functionality Supported by the Pioneer Provisioning Agent" section.

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

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

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

• The list of fields reconciled between IBM RACF and Oracle Identity Manager has been updated in the "Target System Attributes Used for Reconciliation and Provisioning" section.

• The IT resource parameters and their corresponding descriptions and sample values have been updated in the "Defining the IT Resource" section.

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

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

• Known issues related to the following bugs have been added in the "Known Issues" chapter:

  • Bug 6668844

  • Bug 6904041

  • Bug 6920042

  • Bug 7033009

Software Updates in Release 9.0.4.3

The following is a software updates in release 9.0.4.3:

• Support for IBM z/OS version 1.9

Support for IBM z/OS version 1.9

From this release onward, IBM z/OS version 1.9 is one of the certified target system identity repository. This operating system version has been added in the "Certified Deployment Configurations" section.

Software Updates in Release 9.0.4.4

The following table lists issues resolved in release 9.0.4.4:

Bug Number	Issue	Resolution
7286016	On certain UK operating environments, a mainframe code page of GB was used instead of the default UK. This caused the mainframe agents to use the American pound symbol instead of the British pound symbol.	This issue has been resolved. The mainframe agents have been rebuilt to include the GB code page.

Documentation-Specific Updates

The following are documentation-specific updates in releases 9.0.4.1 through 9.0.4.4:

• Guidelines that were earlier documented in the "Known Issues" chapter 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 "Certified Languages", Arabic has been added to the list of languages that the connector supports.

• 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.

• In the "Certified Deployment Configurations" section, changes have been made in the second row. Information about certified deployment configurations has been removed from "Verifying Deployment Requirements".