What's New in the Oracle Identity Manager Advanced Connector for IBM RACF?

This chapter provides an overview of the updates made to the software and documentation for the Oracle Identity Manager Advanced Connector for IBM RACF in release 9.0.4.4.

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 sections discuss software updates:

• Software Updates Up to Release 9.0.4.2

• Software Updates in Release 9.0.4.3

• Software Updates in Release 9.0.4.4

Software Updates Up to Release 9.0.4.2

The following are software updates up to release 9.0.4.2:

• IBM RACF user profile, group profile, and data set and resource profile commands supported by the Provisioning Agent have been added in the "Functionality Supported by the Pioneer Provisioning Agent" section.

• The list of functions supported by the Provisioning Agent has been updated in Section 1.5.2, "Supported Functions for Provisioning."

• The commands supported by the Reconciliation Agent have been added in Section 1.5.1, "Supported Functions for Target Resource and Trusted Source Reconciliation."

• The list of functions supported by the Reconciliation Agent has been updated in Section 1.5.1, "Supported Functions for Target Resource and Trusted Source Reconciliation."

• The list of fields reconciled between IBM RACF and Oracle Identity Manager has been updated in the Section 1.5.3, "User Attributes for Target Resource Reconciliation and Provisioning."

• The IT resource parameters and their corresponding descriptions and sample values have been updated in Section 2.5, "Importing the Connector XML File."

• The procedure to configure the connector for multiple installations of the target system has been added in Section 5.4, "Configuring the Connector for Multiple Installations of the Target System."

• Information about reconciliation based on user status has been added in Section 4.2, "Configuring Account Status Reconciliation."

• Known issues related to the following bugs have been added in Chapter 7, "Known Issues":

  • Bug 6668844

  • Bug 6904041

  • Bug 6920042

  • Bug 7033009

Software Updates in Release 9.0.4.3

The following is a software updates in release 9.0.4.3:

• Support for IBM z/OS version 1.9

Support for IBM z/OS version 1.9

From this release onward, IBM z/OS version 1.9 is one of the certified target system identity repository. This operating system version has been added in Section 1.1, "Certified Components."

Software Updates in Release 9.0.4.4

The following table lists issues resolved in release 9.0.4.4:

Documentation-Specific Updates

The following documentation-specific updates have been made up to the current release of the connector:

• Guidelines that were earlier documented in Chapter 7, "Known Issues" have been moved to Section 4.3, "Guidelines on Using the Connector.".

• Information about enabling logging on the LDAP Gateway server has been added in Section 2.8, "Installing and Configuring the LDAP Gateway."

• In Section 1.2, "Certified Languages," Arabic has been added to the list of languages that the connector supports.

• The IBM MQ Series protocol for the message transport layer is no longer supported for this connector. All content related to this protocol has been removed from the guide.

• In Section 1.1, "Certified Components," changes have been made in the second row.

• Major changes have been made in the structure of the guide. In addition, all references to the prclib.xmi and parmlib.xmi files have been removed from the guide. These files will be introduced in a later release of the connector.