OIM EBS Manage responsibilities - approval workflows

Hi All
I want to maintain EBS Responsibilities through OIM via approval process. In my scenario, when provisioned from OIM, every user gets a default responsibility in EBS.
My requirement is that any OIM user should be able to request more responsibilities by logging into OIM admin console and his request should go to his manager for approval. Once approved by his manager, the user's profile should get updated in EBS and the new responsibility should get added to his profile.
Please let me know how I can achieve this. Thanks for your help.

Thanks Kevin for the response. I guess upgrading the OIM to 9102 and using the new version of EBS Connector would be easier that going into API's as I do not have much knowledge about OIM API's.
Are you sure that upgrading the OIM and EBS conenctor and importing "Oracle-eBusinessSuite-RequestApproval-ConnectorConfig.xml" can resolve my problem i.e. whether upgraded version of EBS connector allows user to choose the responsibility while raising a request.
Can you please suggest some learning material on OIM API or I referring to the "API Usage Guide" would be enough?
Thanks a lot Kevin for your time.

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