What's New in the Oracle Identity Manager Connector for IBM OS/400?

This chapter provides an overview of the updates made to the software and documentation for the Oracle Identity Manager Connector for IBM OS/400 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 releases 9.0.4.1 through 9.0.4.4:

• IBM OS/400 user profile commands supported by the Provisioning Agent have been added in "Functionality Supported by the 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 updated in "Functionality Supported by the 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 IBM OS/400 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".

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

  • Bug 7189194

  • Bug 7353425

Documentation-Specific Updates

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

• The "Verifying Deployment Requirements" section has been updated with specific IBM OS/400 versions that can be used to deploy the Oracle Identity Manager IBM OS/400 Advanced connector.

• The user 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 Oracle Identity Manager and IBM i5/OS" has been removed.

• The components of the IBM OS/400 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".

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

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