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This chapter provides an overview of the updates made to the software and documentation for release 9.1.1 of the PeopleSoft User Management connector.
The 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
This section describes major changes made in this guide. These changes are not related to software updates.
The following sections discuss the software updates:
The following software updates have been made in release 9.1.0:
From this release onward, PeopleTools 8.22, 8.45, 8.46, 8.47, and 8.48 are not supported. Information specific to these releases has been removed from the guide. The modified target system requirements information is documented in Section 1.1, "Certified Components."
The Remote Manager has been added to the connector to support provisioning operations for multiple target systems. Information specific to the connector with the Remote Manager have been added to the relevant sections in this guide. The architecture of the connector with the Remote Manager is described in Section 1.3.3, "Architecture of the Connector with the Remote Manager."
New files have been added to the installation media directory for the connector with the Remote Manager. These files are listed in Section 2.1.1.1, "Files and Directories on the Installation Media."
From this release onward, the connector is installed through the Connector Installer feature of the Oracle Identity Manager Administrative and User Console. Instructions to perform the installation are provided in Section 2.2.1.1, "Running the Connector Installer."
The Delete Reconciliation scheduled task has been added to the connector. Through this scheduled task, the data of deleted users is reconciled into Oracle Identity Manager. See Section 3.6, "Configuring Scheduled Tasks" for more information about this scheduled task and its attributes.
You can configure SSL connectivity between Oracle Identity Manager and the target system for this release of the connector. However, SSL is not supported for Oracle Application Server. For instructions to configure SSL, see Section 2.3, "Postinstallation."
Information about the files in which you set the log levels has changed. This information is available in Section 2.3.1.2, "Enabling Logging."
The following software update has been made in release 9.1.0.1:
From this release onward, the connector can be deployed on Oracle Identity Manager release 9.1.0.1.
The following table lists the issues resolved in release 9.1.0.2:
| Bug Number | Issue | Resolution |
|---|---|---|
| 8271640 | The connector could not be installed in an environment in which the PIA and JOLT servers were hosted on separate computers. | This issue has been resolved. The connector can be installed in an environment in which the PIA and JOLT servers are hosted on separate computers. |
The following software updates have been made in release 9.1.1:
In earlier releases, the connector made use of custom PeopleCode in PeopleSoft Enterprise Applications for full reconciliation and incremental reconciliation. From this release onward, the connector uses the following standard PeopleSoft messages that are delivered as part of the PeopleSoft installation:
USER_PROFILE
DELETE_USER_PROFILE
See Section 1.4.2, "Support for Standard PeopleSoft Messages" for more information.
Lookup definitions have been added to support reconciliation based on standard message types.
See Section 1.5, "Lookup Definitions Used During Connector Operations" for a complete listing of the lookup definitions.
The connector now supports the following ID Types in addition to the Employee (EMP) ID Type:
Customer (CST)
Vendor (VND)
The connector is now enhanced to support additional ID Types.
See Section 1.4.8, "Adding New ID Types" for more information.
From this release onward, the Remote Manager mode of the connector has been deprecated. Information specific to the connector with the Remote Manager has been removed from the corresponding sections in this guide. The connector can now be used for multiple versions of the target system without deploying the Remote Manager.
The connector can be configured to work with different versions of the target system at the same time. For example, you can use a single instance of the connector to integrate Oracle Identity Manager with a PeopleTools 8.48 installation and a PeopleTools 8.49 installation.
See Section 2.2.1.4, "Configuring the Connector to Support Multiple Versions of the Target System" for more information.
Standard messages provided by PeopleSoft are asynchronous. In other words, if a message is not delivered successfully, then the PeopleSoft Integration Broker marks that message as not delivered. The message can then be resent manually.
See Section 3.4, "Resending Messages That Are Not Received by the PeopleSoft Listener" for details.
The default set of attribute mappings for reconciliation and provisioning has been enhanced. See the following sections for a full listing of the attribute mappings:
The connector supports the connection pooling feature introduced in Oracle Identity Manager release 9.1.0.2. In earlier releases, a connection with the target system was established at the start of a reconciliation run and closed after the reconciliation run. With the introduction of connection pooling, multiple connections are established by Oracle Identity Manager and held in reserve for use by the connector.
See Section 1.4.6, "Connection Pooling" for more information.
You can configure validation of account data that is brought into or sent from Oracle Identity Manager during reconciliation and provisioning. In addition, you can configure transformation of account data that is brought into Oracle Identity Manager during reconciliation.
See the following sections for more information:
Section 4.7, "Configuring Validation of Data During Reconciliation"
Section 4.8, "Configuring Transformation of Data During Reconciliation"
To meet the requirements of specific use cases, you might need to create multiple copies of the Oracle Identity Manager objects that constitute the connector. The connector can work with multiple instances of these objects.
See Section 4.11, "Configuring the Connector for Multiple Installations of the Target System" for more information.
From this release onward, you can specify a list of accounts who must be excluded from all reconciliation and provisioning operations.
See Section 1.5.2.3.4, "Lookup.PSFT.UM.ExclusionList" for more information.
The following issues are resolved in release 9.1.1:
| Bug Number | Issue | Resolution |
|---|---|---|
| 7526893 | The connector supported the linking of user profile with employee ID type only. Other ID types, such as vendor and customer, were not supported. | This issue has been resolved. The connector now supports the linking of user profile with any ID type supported by the target system. |
| 8351580 and 8718471 | The connector supported a single PeopleSoft implementation for a single Oracle Identity Manager. The connector did not allow the reuse of the adapters with multiple objects, processes, and form names required for different implementations. | This issue has been resolved. The connector now makes use of the configuration lookup definitions. The Oracle Identity Manager object references can now be configured.
The remote manager approach to support multiple versions of the target system is deprecated. It is replaced by a class loader solution. See Section 2.2.1.4, "Configuring the Connector to Support Multiple Versions of the Target System" for more information. |
| 8239326 | The connector used to log the password. | This issue has been resolved. The connector does not log the password now. |
The following sections discuss documentation-specific updates:
The following are the documentation-specific updates in release 9.1.0:
Information about connector deployment has been modified in this document based on the different stages of connector deployment. This information is provided in Chapter 2, "Deploying the Connector."
The extended functionality of the connector is described in Chapter 4, "Extending the Functionality of the Connector."
The architecture of the connector has been included in this guide. This information is provided in Section 1.3, "Connector Architecture."
The field mappings between the target system and Oracle Identity Manager have been moved from the appendix to the first chapter. The field mappings for lookup field synchronization, target resource reconciliation, and provisioning are described in the following sections, respectively:
The reconciliation matching and action rules for target resource reconciliation have been added to the guide. This information is available at the following section:
The following is a documentation-specific update in release 9.1.0.1:
In Section 2.2.1.5, "Deploying the PeopleSoft Listener," the steps to redeploy the PeopleSoftOIMListener.war file into the deployment directory of Oracle WebLogic Server have been modified.
The following are the documentation-specific updates in release 9.1.0.2:
In Section 2.2.1.3, "Configuring the IT Resource" and Section 2.3.3.1, "Configuring the IT Resource for the Connector with the Remote Manager":
The definition of the ServerName IT resource parameter has been modified
The PIAServerName IT resource parameter has been added.
A note in Section 2.2.1.5, "Deploying the PeopleSoft Listener" section has been modified.
Major changes have been made to 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 the information provided by the guide.
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