What's New in the Oracle Identity Manager Connector for Database User Management?

This chapter provides an overview of the updates made to the software and documentation for release 9.1.0 of the Database User Management connector.

The updates discussed in this chapter are divided into the following categories:

• Software Updates

  These include updates made to the connector software.

• Documentation-Specific Updates

  These include major changes made to the connector documentation. These changes are not related to software updates.

Software Updates

The following sections discuss software updates:

Software Updates in Release 9.1.0

The following features have been introduced in this release:

See Also: Section 1.4, "Features of the Connector" for information about these new features

• Mapping standard and custom attributes for reconciliation and provisioning

• Predefined and custom reconciliation queries

• Predefined and custom provisioning statements

• Framework for supporting connector operations on JDBC-based databases

• Support for creating global and external users in Oracle Database

• Support for configuring the connector for reconciling and provisioning object-level privileges in Oracle Database

• Dependent lookup fields

• Specifying accounts to be excluded from reconciliation and provisioning operations

• Connection pooling

• Support for creating connector copies

• Transformation and validation of account data

• Support for reconciling data about deleted login entities

• Separate scheduled tasks for reconciliation of users, logins, and deleted login entities

• Support for SSL communication between the target system and Oracle Identity Manager

• Support for managing authorization to Oracle Database Vault realms

• Support for configuring the connector for Oracle Enterprise User Security

Documentation-Specific Updates

Major changes have been made in the structure of the guide. The objective of these changes is to synchronize the guide with the changes made to the connector and to improve the usability of information provided by the guide.

See Section 1.8, "Roadmap for Deploying and Using the Connector" for information about the organization of content in this guide.