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The following table describes changes that affect the user interface or behavior of RSA Identity Governance and Lifecycle 7.1 Patch 9 as the result of fixed issues.
Issue |
Description |
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Change Requests and Workflow ACM-100295 |
Password resets now group correctly when By Business Source is selected in the workflow. |
Change Requests and Workflow ACM-95340 |
The Attachment section for change requests is now controlled by the Request Settings options in the workflow editor. |
Security ACM-90370 |
Authorization validation added for file coverage uploads and to collector activate/deactivate buttons. A pop-up is presented if user does not have the proper privilege. |
Security ACM-99089 |
Error message was made more user-friendly. |
User Interface ACM-99458 |
The user interface now wraps the drop-down text to the next line if it is longer than the drop-down width and added a separation line. The minimum width is now 150 pixels for both the select button and drop-down section. Both sections widths increase based on the text length entered by the user. The maximum height of the drop-down section is now 60% of screen size. A scroll bar is shown if the height exceeds the maximum height limit. |
Feature |
What’s New |
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The text in Approval and Rejection email replies have been updated to clearly indicate where the user may add additional comments. |
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The default value for the maximum number of recipients for an email provider has been changed to 100. |
Server Core |
Added the ability to create an authentication source from any host in a clustered environment. |
The following table describes changes that affect the user interface or behavior of RSA Identity Governance and Lifecycle 7.1 Patch 8 as the result of fixed issues.
Issue |
Description |
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Access Requests ACM-87884 |
Request buttons for Add/Remove Using Request Source now includes an option to include terminated users. |
AFX Server ACM-96646 |
The ISIM 6.0 connector template has been updated to include new dependency files (itim_ws_client.jar, itim_ws_model.itim_common.jar, jlog.jar) and a properties file (tmsProperties.properties) that must be uploaded when configuring the connector. In the Commands section, the new Justification parameter has been added to some commands. |
Request Forms ACM-96978 |
Error strings are no longer displayed as drop down values. |
Role Management ACM-96925 |
Applications and Directories had incorrectly displayed the Raw Name instead of Display Name on the Access tab for users. The Access tab now correctly displays the Display Name of the Application or Directory. |
User Interface ACM-96671 |
The "one of" operator now takes the Ignore Case option into account when filtering tables. |
Feature |
What’s New |
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Database Management |
Data pruning has been enhanced to remove unneeded workflow data from the system. |
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The text in Approval and Rejection email replies have been updated to clearly indicate where the user may add additional comments. |
The following table describes changes that affect the user interface or behavior of RSA Identity Governance and Lifecycle 7.1 Patch 7 as the result of fixed issues.
Issue |
Description |
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Access Certification ACM-61543 |
In the review definition, the "include sub-groups" label has been changed to "include sub-groups from selected groups". |
Access Requests ACM-89679 |
A new tab has been added under Requests > Pending Submission, which displays a table of change requests that were not submitted successfully. When a change request has dependent items in a different change request, the dependent change request's detail displays a message about the dependency. The dependency message information is displayed in the request form wizard, in case the request being created has account items that are dependent on an older request. For a single user, if the parent's create account request item’s request is not successfully submitted, then further request creation for the user is prevented until the Pending Submission request is cleaned. If the request has multiple users and one of the users has a pending submission request, a new request for all users can be created. The new request will display the dependency information for the user with a pending submission request. |
Change Requests and Workflow ACM-95849 |
The "Show job level variables" checkboxes are now selected by default and job variables explicitly shown in approval and fulfillment workflows. If these variables need to be hidden, the checkbox must be deselected. |
Change Requests and Workflow ACM-94899 |
When a change request contains a change request item to remove an already-deleted role from a user, that change request item is rejected while the system proceeds with the other items in the change request. |
Custom Attributes ACM-88462 |
The accounts table now lists all custom user attributes. |
Data Collection Processing and Management ACM-94792 |
When an RDC’s HAS data is not configured or has an old value set to No, RSA Identity Governance and Lifecycle now ensures that, after collection, the User Access tab Direct view for a user correctly displays all collected roles of which the user is a direct member, and that the user has the correct nested sub-roles in the All view. |
Database Management ACM-74139 |
Data purging has been updated to ensure that workflow data with null change dates is purged. |
Reports ACM-90513 |
The new public view PV_REQUEST_ITEM_COMP_DTLS has been added to the product. For more information, see the RSA Identity Governance and Lifecycle Public Database Schema Reference. |
User Interface ACM-53828 |
The table options now lists custom attributes of the specific object type in the pop-up account details where the Entitlement table is displayed. |
User Interface ACM-81142 |
Under Reviews > Activities, the Actions menu automatically scrolls so that all options are visible. |
User Interface ACM-94283 |
Added the columns Business Use, Functional Ownership, Locality, and Sensitivity in the Application, Directory, Data Resource Sets, Rule Sets, and Role Sets summary tables. Grouping is disabled on these columns. |
The following table describes changes that affect the user interface or behavior of RSA Identity Governance and Lifecycle 7.1 Patch 6 as the result of fixed issues.
Issue |
Description |
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Access Certification ACM-93895 |
If a reviewer attempts to save or sign off changes while their earlier changes are processing, the user interface now displays a warning message that indicates that the review has another save or sign off in progress, and that the user can submit the changes after the previous changes have completed. |
Access Requests ACM-92751 |
The default out-of-office functionality will now process Global Common Submission Questions to complete a request submission. |
Change Requests and Workflows ACM-95063 |
A workflow form not successfully deleted will prompt an error in the user interface. |
Change Requests and Workflows ACM-95214 |
The conditional transition selection now saves properly through the drop-down selection button. |
Metadata Import/Export ACM-92269 |
The application metadata now exports information about mapped connectors. When the metadata is imported, if the specified connector is available, the application is mapped to the connector. |
Security ACM-94695 |
Only users with edit privileges can view the debug properties and configuration for REST and SOAP Web Service nodes. |
User Interface ACM-92551 |
To improve performance, a user interface table no longer calculates the number of items in a change request for each listed task. |
Feature |
What’s New |
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Request Forms |
The Entitlement Table, Entitlement Table with Action, and Entitlement Table (non-visual) request form controls can now filter entitlements by entitlement types: entitlements, groups, roles, and application roles. This allows a finer scope and improved performance for the request form controls when only specific entitlement types are needed. |
The following table describes changes that affect the user interface or behavior of RSA Identity Governance and Lifecycle 7.1 Patch 5 as the result of fixed issues.
Issue |
Description |
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Admin Errors ACM-92855 |
The Admin Error type "Account Load Data" can now contextually appear in the properties of a Create Admin Error workflow node. |
Change Requests and Workflows ACM-88351 |
The Show Job Level Variables setting in request workflows will not overwrite the same setting in approval and fulfillment workflows. |
Change Requests and Workflows ACM-88384 |
A workflow must be removed from configuration (phase nodes, subprocesses, and escalations) before it can be deleted. |
Change Requests and Workflows ACM-89649 |
The Business justification character limit has increased to 4000 while editing exceptional access. |
Change Requests and Workflows ACM-93462 |
The "Assign to" list no longer appears as available options for Resource Selection. |
Data Collection Processing and Management ACM-90663 |
The date range of historical configuration information has been reduced in areas such as collector changes. |
Data Collection Processing and Management ACM-91761 |
The Last Reviewed Date OOTB attribute has been removed from the collector wizards. |
Role Management ACM-87106 |
The Out of Constraint Users list in the Analytics tab has changed to use the same format as the Users list in the Users tab. |
Web Services ACM-92041 |
Validation for webservice calls to add or remove accounts from a group can be requested using the collector or the business source, but not both. |
Feature |
What’s New |
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Change Requests and Workflow |
Upgrade of Workflow Engine to 4.40.16. |
The following table describes changes that affect the user interface or behavior of RSA Identity Governance and Lifecycle 7.1 Patch 4 as the result of fixed issues.
Issue |
Description |
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Access Certification ACM-88680 |
The "Save Tab in Table" option has been removed from table pop-ups. |
Change Requests and Workflows ACM-88211 |
Workflows cannot be selected across different types of modules and are only selectable for the appropriate module type. |
Change Requests and Workflows ACM-89833 |
The fulfillment workflow now uses the correct query to group fulfillments by business source. |
Change Requests and Workflows ACM-89860 |
WorkItemURL selection is now available for manual nodes. |
Change Requests and Workflows ACM-90476 |
A custom task must be removed from the schedule before it can be deleted. |
Data Collection Processing and Management ACM-81403 |
If an agent cannot resolve the Member Type from the Account Data Collector’s source system for a group’s member, it assigns "unknown" to the Member Type column in the raw data instead of guessing the correct member type. When Member Type is “unknown", the collector’s database processing still attempts to resolve the member type. If successful, it assigns a member type in the new "Resolved Member Type" column in the raw data. If Member Type is "unknown" and the member type cannot be resolved by the account collector, then Resolved Member Type is left blank and the collected membership is rejected. |
Installer ACM-87123 |
Applying a patch overwrites the configuration files for plugins except for the ITIM2FulfillmentHandler, NovellIMListener, and SunFulfillmentHandler plugins, which are copied from the customer's system instead. The patch application process backs up the original plug-in configuration files in the folder <location of the patch>/backup/<timestamp>/plug-ins/ so that you can restore them if needed. |
Role Management ACM-74637 |
The "Role Missing Entitlement Rule" email notification now adds group entitlements collected from the ADC. |
Rules ACM-90043 |
An "Associate Remediation Job" button has been added to the Rule Details page for remediation actions. When clicked, remediation workflow jobs are created for identified and unassociated violations. This button is not enabled by default, but can be enabled by the "ViolationRemediationReProcess" feature flag. |
Note: Custom Workflow Tasks are a reserved capability that should only be enabled for production operations if approved by RSA product support and engineering teams. A warning message will be displayed when enabled.
The following table describes changes that affect the user interface or behavior of RSA Identity Governance and Lifecycle 7.1 Patch 3 as the result of fixed issues.
Issue |
Description |
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Access Certification ACM-88680 |
The "Save Tab in Table" option has been removed from table pop-ups. |
Access Certification ACM-88254 |
The user interface displays an “in-progress” indicator when general category bulk maintain actions are in progress. |
Access Certification ACM-88929 |
Export operations are now limited to 5,000 records at a time. |
Access Requests ACM-79721 |
Revocation change requests generated by account change requests will maintain the account property type. |
Change Requests and Workflows ACM-71049 |
The default AFX Manual Fulfillment subprocess workflow now includes a job state node to cancel change items when cancelling fulfillment. |
Provisioning ACM-88777 |
The Workflow ValidReplyAnswers macro now populates and lists URLs in a consistent order. |
Request Forms ACM-70736 |
User filters containing avform.user variables are not replaced with substitute values in the Compare Users field of the Provisioning form. |
Security ACM-73739 |
Enhanced security for page access in RSA Identity Governance and Lifecycle. |
User Interface ACM-81449 |
The Other type for owners is now usable in simple and advanced views. |
The following section describes improvements in version 7.1 Patch 2.
Feature |
What’s New |
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Request Forms |
The way in which request forms for applications prompt for account information from end users has been improved. Users with only one account are not prompted to select an account. Users with multiple accounts are prompted to select an account as the first step, before the rest of the form is displayed. All aspects of the displayed application request form take the selected account into consideration, eliminating the need to select an account after selecting entitlements. |
Connectors |
Introduced IBM Security Identity Manager 6.0 connector template for provisioning requests on ISIM. |
The following table describes changes that affect the user interface or behavior of RSA Identity Governance and Lifecycle 7.1 Patch 2 as the result of fixed issues.
Issue |
Description |
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Access Certification ACM-87169 |
The new reviewer interface no longer includes access for terminated users as a low-risk category. |
Account Management ACM-83939 |
When a pending account cannot be renamed due to conflicts, the error is logged in the aveksaServer.log file and the Approval screen does not proceed. The Reject option on the Approval screen shows the tip "Parameter changes other than comments are ignored." |
Data Collection Processing and Management ACM-74626 |
The Application Metadata Collector will only update application business source objects. |
Request Forms ACM-64863 |
The Request Forms wizard disables the Next button until all form elements on a page are loaded. |
Request Forms ACM-77882 |
Drop-down, Multi-select, and Number fields can be populated by avform attribute selectors used as the default value. |
Request Forms ACM-83637 |
The JavaScript block form control no longer allows Display conditions. The Display tab for this form control displays a message for the restriction. When Enable conditions are set, the JavaScript block entered is executed only when the conditions are satisfied. If there are no conditions set, then the JavaScript block is executed whenever the form runs. |
Request Forms ACM-88604 |
Multiple account resolution can be configured on a request form to prompt for every change or per business source. |
Feature |
What’s New |
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AFX |
The AFX connector has improved performance when mapping unused variables in large environments. |
Change Requests and Workflow |
Fulfillment workflows now include a technical approval node. The technical approval node prompts the technical owner to approve a change request before fulfillment. |
The following table describes changes that affect the user interface or behavior of RSA Identity Governance and Lifecycle 7.1 Patch 1 as the result of fixed issues.
Issue |
Description |
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Access Certification ACM-68187 |
The Bulk Actions dialog box displays all supported actions as a drop down field and includes Add Comment as a separate bulk action. Maintain with Expiration is also listed as a separate bulk action when a selected expiration date field is displayed and mandatory. |
Account Management ACM-78326 |
Additional account parameters from an account template will now display in the Account info pop-up. |
Change Requests and Workflow ACM-84016 |
The provisioning command node properties do not display job variables tied to data that it cannot directly access. |
Change Requests and Workflow ACM-84218 |
User access requests for entitlement changes apply the following rules:
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Change Requests and Workflow ACM-80901 |
The number of work items retained in the workflow history is now limited to reduce the amount of data loaded. |
Collector ACM-75432 |
The attribute "lastlogontimestamp", always collected as a date-type value, can be stored in a custom attribute of either string-type integer value or a date-type value. A string-type integer value is automatically converted to the date-type value formatted as “yyyy-MM-dd HH:mm:ss”. |
Data Collection Processing and Management ACM-82998 |
The IDC User Interface now shows the "Requires Full Refresh" status like the other collectors. |
ACM-79253 |
Generated emails of exported reports attach the report file with a lowercase extension. |
ACM-83216 |
Email reply processing looks for the dynamically assigned individual in roles defined as a dynamic resource or group. |
Password Management ACM-81479 |
The Default External Reset Password Form is available. It can be customized to have external validation URI to apply consistent validation. External reset password pages display as a full page. Users cannot continue to the next page unless the external reset password page meets the conditions for validation. |
Reports ACM-67195 |
Reports exported to an Excel spreadsheet now use the .xlsx extension. |
Reports ACM-81849 |
If invalid characters are detected the report file name, the detected characters are replaced with an underscore. Strings of invalid characters are replaced with a single underscore. The user interface allows characters not valid for the file name. |
Request Forms ACM-65018 |
Non-visual tables for accounts and entitlements will not display on a submitted request form. |
Role Management ACM-65297 |
The entitlement type now displays in brackets next to the entitlement display name when setting an entitlement rule in a role set. |
Role Management ACM-75430 |
The Role Import process warns that collected roles, if imported, will be converted into local roles. |
Role Management ACM-81602 |
Coarse-grained role reviews no longer include a Remove button or allow edits for entitlements and members. |
Rules ACM-84810 |
The form for the Violation Remediation workflow node does not show out-of-the-box form controls that will not work for the node. |
Security ACM-84155 |
Users now require at least view permissions to see the properties of a workflow. Edit permissions are required for users to edit a workflow. These permissions also apply to parent or child jobs of a workflow. The Workflow tab for an approval or fulfillment request will only display the workflow image. |
User Interface ACM-77791 |
The Max Users Per Change Request setting in Access Configuration displays as "--" on the Settings tab if not assigned a value. |
Web Services ACM-81967 |
Web service requests to add an account to a group now associate users that are mapped to the account. A web service change request involving access for multiple users for a shared account now displays "Multiple Users" instead of a single user in the AccountChanges table. A user's shared account displays changes raised by other mapped users in their Requests tab. |
The following sections describe the new features and improvements in version 7.1.
Feature |
What’s New |
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User Access Reviews |
User Access Reviews have a new reviewer experience. The new reviewer experience provides a streamlined look that includes the Review Analysis and Guidance panel and advanced filtering. The Review Analysis and Guidance panel organizes review items into two sets of categories: Critical and General. Critical Categories identify review items that may pose a greater risk and that may require more attention during your review. General Categories group review items that may require less attention during a review. When creating a review definition, you can select either the new reviewer experience or the legacy reviewer interface. |
Rule Mitigating Controls |
If your organization has processes in place to reduce the risk of providing exceptional access to users, you can enable mitigating controls for separation of duties (SoD) and user access rules. When enabled, when maintaining exceptional access during rule violation remediation, remediators are required to provide details about the mitigating control used. |
Workflow Dashboard |
The page at Admin > Workflow > Monitoring displays information about workflows, and helps to detect problems by displaying warning icons if the workflow engine is unable to communicate with the database, if there are a large number of changes pending verification, or if changes have been pending verification for an excessive amount of time, if a workflow queue is potentially backed up, and if a workflow appears to be stalled. |
Data Archiving |
You can now create data archives to remove older data from active use within the RSA Identity Governance and Lifecycle system, while retaining a backup of the data to adhere to internal data retention policies or for auditing purposes. Archiving data reduces the size of the database and the resources needed by the database. Data archives can be used only for auditing purposes. Data archives cannot be restored to the RSA Identity Governance and Lifecycle system for troubleshooting purposes. |
Password Vault |
Support for using a third-party password vault to manage credentials for collectors, in addition to connectors, has been added. Support for several additional collectors and connectors has been added. To determine which collectors and connectors are supported by the password vault management, see the application guide or datasheet for the specific collector or connector. |
Virtual Application |
RSA Identity Governance and Lifecycle can now be deployed as a virtual application. The virtual application installation includes the application server and RSA Identity Governance and Lifecycle. Virtual application installations require a remote database. |
Platform |
The following platform updates have been made:
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Feature |
What’s New |
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AveksaAdmin Password Security |
After you upgrade or install RSA Identity Governance and Lifecycle, the AveksaAdmin password is hashed and encrypted in a new, more secure format upon the AveksaAdmin user's first login. After a new installation or upgrade, you can migrate data containing the older password format only once. Attempting subsequent migrations may lock out the AveksaAdmin, and require assistance from Customer Support to recover access. |
AFX-Install |
File name validation has been added for connectors and connector templates. The following characters are not allowed in file names: \ / : * ? " < > | |
Change Requests and Workflows |
The following changes have been made to change requests and workflows:
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Collectors |
The following changes have been made to collectors:
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Connectors |
The following improvements have been made for connectors:
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Custom Attributes |
The maximum number of custom string attributes for group objects and business source objects have increased from 10 to 35. |
Dashboard |
After upgrading to RSA Identity Governance and Lifecycle v7.1, the new dashboard is displayed to users by default. If the previous deployment used the old dashboard, the old dashboard is disabled, but not deleted. |
Database Management |
The following changes have been made to database management:
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Data Collection Processing and Management |
The following improvements have been made in data collection processing and management:
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Platform |
Changes have been made to the aveksa_cluster script to improve the troubleshooting of clustering communication issues. |
Reports |
The Additional System Information section of the Aveksa Statistics Report (ASR) now includes a list of any custom files that have been uploaded. |
Role Management |
RSA Identity Governance and Lifecycle has made improvements to the export and import of roles.
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User Interface |
The following changes have been made to the user interface style:
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Web Services |
Web Service commands now support the JSON output format. |
The following table describes changes that affect the user interface or behavior of RSA Identity Governance and Lifecycle 7.1 as the result of fixed issues.
Issue |
Description |
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Access Certification |
The Grouped by Application tab for a user review is now labeled "Grouped By Business Source." It now includes groups and roles organized by their directory or role set in addition to entitlements and application roles. |
Access Certification ACM-78225 |
Bulk Actions now apply to accounts with unreviewed entitlements whether or not they are signed off. |
AFX |
The SOAPAction header can be added through the UI or derived from the WSDL for each capability. |
Authentication |
Required challenge responses are validated and cannot be submitted if left empty. |
Authentication |
The external password reset tool will be case-insensitive when searching the following authentication sources:
If more than one account name possibly matches the given identification for the sources above, the external password reset tool will then check for an exact match with case-sensitivity. If there is no exact match, an error message asks the user to type in the account name with the correct case. The password reset tool will be case-sensitive when searching other authentication sources. |
Access Requests |
The request cancellation date displays the Job start date. |
Change Requests and Workflow |
The Milestone Component now displays a change request approval step for canceled jobs. |
Change Requests and Workflow |
The workflow editor components change size when resizing the window. |
Change Requests and Workflow |
Group and role owner attributes can be added to subprocess node filtering. |
Change Requests and Workflow |
You cannot change or reset read-only jobs. |
Change Requests and Workflow |
Approvals and Activities, grouped by Business Source, and assigned to an application for "Directory for Account" use the application instead of the directory. |
Change Requests and Workflow |
The event type "Reject Changes handled by this workflow" is now available for Cancel Change Request nodes. |
Change Requests and Workflow |
An Edit button was added to the email body section of the email fulfillment handler configuration. |
Collector |
The Attribute category appears in the collector mapping page as intended. |
Connector |
AFX no longer enables a disabled user account after a successful password reset for LDAP connectors. However, AFX unlocks locked user accounts after a successful password reset. |
Custom Attributes |
The format of the metadata export file has changed to include additional custom attribute properties. |
Data Collection Processing and Management |
The Last Collected On field for individual accounts listed under an account collector now displays the last successful collection date, even if the data has not been updated since a prior collection. If an account has been deleted, the Last Collected On field displays the deletion date. |
Data Collection Processing and Management |
The HasData option is no longer supported for new role data collectors. Existing collectors that currently use this option are not affected. |
Descriptions |
RSA Identity Governance and Lifecycle now requires that business descriptions for groups contain an application scope. When you create a new business description for a group that does not apply to a set, you must select an application with which to associate the business description before you can select the group. When you import business descriptions from an XML file, you must ensure that an application is specified for each business description that applies to a group. When updating or migrating RSA Identity Governance and Lifecycle from a previous version, RSA Identity Governance and Lifecycle deletes group business descriptions that are not actively in use. Before you migrate, run the provided pre-migration queries to identify any group business descriptions that will be deleted by the migration process. If you still need these group business descriptions, you can re-import them with an application reference in the import file, or you can manually recreate them after migration. For more information, see the "Migration Queries for Group Business Descriptions" section in Install a Patch. |
Metadata Import and Export |
The User Attributes check box has been removed from the Import/Export dialog. All attributes, including user attributes, can be imported or exported by selecting the Attributes check box. |
Reports |
Report headers wrap column text to avoid hiding important information. |
Request Forms |
Support has been added for connecting to a web service using authentication when adding a field to an access request form. When you add a field to an access request form and select the control type "Drop Down select with Web Service", under Options, you can now configure the Authentication Type, Authentication User, and Authentication Password for the connection to the web service. |
Request Forms |
The Password Reset form can now process all field components that would create a change item. |
Role Management |
Users editing a role without access to the assigned roleset will see the assigned roleset but will not be able to change it. |
Rules |
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Feature |
Description |
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Password Management |
32-bit installation of the AD Password Capture tool has been deprecated. |
Platform |
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