Oracle® Identity Manager Connector Guide for SAP Enterprise Portal Release 9.0.4 Part Number E11211-03 |
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This chapter provides an overview of the updates made to the software and documentation for the SAP Enterprise Portal connector in release 9.0.4.3.
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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. This section also points out the sections of this guide that have been changed in response to each software update.
Documentation-Specific Updates
These include major changes made to this guide. For example, the relocation of a section from the second chapter to the third chapter is a documentation-specific update. These changes are not related to software updates.
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Oracle Identity Manager Release NotesThe following sections discuss software updates implemented from release 9.0.4 to the current release of the connector:
The SAPEPConnector.jar
file has been split into two files, SAPEPConnector.jar
and SAPEPRecon.jar
. Corresponding changes have been made in the following sections:
The following are software updates in release 9.0.4.2:
This release of the connector supports SAP Enterprise Portal 7.0 SP15. Versions of the target system supported by earlier releases of the connector are desupported from this release onward.
See "Verifying Deployment Requirements" for more information.
Batched reconciliation is supported from this release onward. The BatchSize
attribute has been introduced in the SAPEP UserRecon
scheduled task. The FirstTimeReconRecords
attribute has been removed from the scheduled task.
See "User Reconciliation Scheduled Task" for more information.
Earlier releases of the connector required you to copy files from the following directory during the deployment procedure:
SAPEP_HOME/EP6J/j2ee/j2ee_00/cluster/server/
This requirement has been removed.
The following are some minor updates made in this release:
The CustomizedReconQuery
parameter has been moved from the IT resource to the SAPEP UserRecon
scheduled task. In addition, the TrustedResourceObject
attribute has been added to this scheduled task. See "User Reconciliation Scheduled Task" for more information.
In "Configuring Provisioning", the SAP EP Email Modify
adapter has been added to the list of adapters to be compiled when you deploy the connector.
In "Testing Partial Reconciliation", the list of examples for testing partial reconciliation has been modified.
From the "Known Issues" chapter, the following point has been removed:
"The configuration details of the SAP Enterprise Portal database are in plaintext in the sapum.properties
file, the location of which is available in the IT resource definition. This poses a security threat."
The following is a software update in release 9.0.4.3:
The following are issues that have been resolved in release 9.0.4.3:
Bug Number | Issue | Resolution |
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7496046 | During incremental reconciliation, all the users created on a given day were fetched into Oracle Identity Manager. | This issue has been resolved. Now, during incremental reconciliation, only user records that are added or modified after the timestamp are fetched into Oracle Identity Manager. |
8682180 | The status of the Delete User task was Rejected when the connector was configured for identity reconciliation (trusted source) mode. In addition, the status of the user remained at provisioned even after the corresponding OIM User was deleted. |
This issue has been resolved. After the Delete User operation, the status of the user changes to Revoked and Delete User task changes to Completed. |
The following sections discuss documentation-specific updates from release 9.0.4 to the current release of the connector:
There are no documentation-specific updates in release 9.0.4.1.
The following are documentation-specific updates in release 9.0.4.2:
In "Reconciled Xellerate User Fields", the list of fields has been modified.
In "Deploying Web Services on the Target System", the procedure has been modified.
In "Partial Reconciliation", the row for the UserID
to uniqueName
field mapping has been removed. Some other changes have been made in the names of attributes for groups and roles.
The following are documentation-specific updates in release 9.0.4.3:
In "Configuring the Reconciliation Scheduled Tasks", the status that Oracle Identity Manager assigns to a task after completing the maximum number of retries has been changed from FAILED
to ERROR.
In the "Multilanguage Support", Arabic has been added to the list of languages that the connector supports.
In the "Testing Partial Reconciliation" section, a minor change in the example for the CustomizedReconQuery
parameter has been made.
In the "Defining IT Resources" section, the SOAPAdminUserID
and SOAPAdminPassword
parameters have been added. There parameters have been supported from release 9.0.4.2. Similarly, the SAPUMLocation
parameter has been deleted. This parameter has been deleted from release 9.0.4.2.
The "Configuring SSL to Secure Communication Between Oracle Identity Manager and the Target System" section has been added.
The following item has been removed from the "Known Issues" chapter:
The connector does not support Secure Network Communication (SNC) or Secure Sockets Layer (SSL).