Release Update 19.16 Features

Enhancements for Identity and Access Management Integration with Oracle Database Environments

Available for Oracle Database release 19.16 are enhancements to the integration of Identity and Access Management (IAM) users with Oracle Database Environments.

Additional Oracle Database environments: The full list of supported Oracle Database environments is as follows:
- Oracle Autonomous Database on Dedicated Exadata Infrastructure
- Oracle Autonomous Database on Shared Exadata Infrastructure
- Oracle Base Database Service
Ability to use the IAM user name and password to retrieve an IAM token: Retrieving a token using an IAM user name and password or secure external password store (SEPS) is more secure than using the password verifier method of database access.

Oracle Data Guard Redo Decryption for Hybrid Disaster Recovery Configurations

Available for Oracle Database release 19.16, Oracle Data Guard enables you to decrypt redo operations in hybrid cloud disaster recovery configurations where the Cloud database is encrypted with TDE and the on-premises database is not.

Hybrid disaster recovery is often considered a quick-stepping stone to cloud adoption. By enabling the ability to quickly configure disaster recovery even in cases where on-premises databases might not already be encrypted with TDE, the steps required to configure hybrid disaster recovery environments are reduced while still ensuring that redo data is still encrypted during the transportation process.

To enable this feature, Oracle Database introduces the TABLESPACE_ENCRYPTION initialization parameter, which enables you to control the automatic encryption of tablespaces in both the primary and standby databases, for on-premises and Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) environments. For example, an on-premises database can be unencrypted and an OCI database can be encrypted.