Date: February 04, 2015
To: CA Identity Manager r12.6 SP5 Customers
From: The CA Technologies CA Identity Manager r12.6 SP5 Product Team
Subject: General Availability Announcement for CA Identity Manager r12.6 SP5

On behalf of CA Technologies, we appreciate your business and the opportunity to provide high-quality, innovative software and services. As part of our ongoing commitment to customer success, we regularly release updated versions of our products. Today, we are pleased to announce that CA Identity Manager r12.6 SP5 is now available.

The following section describes the key new capabilities introduced in CA Identity Manager 12.6 SP5. For more details, please refer to the Release Notes.

New Features/Enhancements

• Service Desk Integration for CA Identity Manager: CA Identity Manager together with CA NIM (Normalized Integration Management), can now create service desk tickets on a number of service desk products. In order to do that, customers need to define Policy Xpress in CA Identity Manager.
• A new flat-file connector is now available. Customers can define an un-managed end-point in CA Identity Manager and provide users and group's information in a series of Comma Separated Values (CSV) formats, or by leveraging Pentaho Data Integration (PDI) transformation.
• IM web UI now provides the ability to manage Active Directory users with custom Active Directory attributes. This functionality was previously available only from CA Provisioning Manager.
• IM web UI now provides the ability to manage universal Active Directory groups. This functionality was previously available only from CA Provisioning Manager.
• Each IM environment now can be associated with its own admin email address.
• IM connector to ACF2 now supports provisioning users to ACF2 XROLs.

New Web Services (SaaS) End-points via CA API Gateway:

• New connector to BOX
• New connector to Google Apps

New Certifications for platforms and end-points:

• Windows 2012 CR2 as an operating system
• Solaris 11 as an operating system
• RedHat Enterprise Linux 7.x as an operating system
• Jboss 6.3 EAP as an application server
• SQL 2012 SP2 as a user store and object store
• CA Directory 12.0 SP14 as a repository
• RSA 8.x as an end-point
• Lotus Notes Domino 9.x as an end-point
• Oracle eBusiness 12.2.x as an end-point

We encourage you to visit the CA Identity Manager r12.6 SP5 product information page on the CA Support Online website at https://support.ca.com/ for more information.

To obtain your copy of CA Identity Manager 12.6 SP5 please contact CA Customer Care at +1-800-225-5224 in North America or see http://www.ca.com/phone for the local number in your country.

Should you need any assistance in understanding these new features, or implementing this latest release, our CA Services experts can help. For more information on CA Services and how you can leverage our expertise, please visit www.ca.com/services.

To review our Technical Support Lifecycle Policy, please visit:
https://support.ca.com/phpdocs/0/common/techsupp_policy.pdf.

Thank you again for your business,
The CA Technologies Identity Manager Product Team