Authentication using connection specification properties

WebSphere® Adapter for SAP Software uses connection properties either through Managed Connection Factory properties or a Java™ Authentication and Authorization Services (JAAS) alias. If you want to change the connection properties used for authentication with either one of these authentication methods, you can change the connection properties through the IBM® Business Process Manager administrative console and restart the Java EE application or change the JAAS security settings.

In addition to the methods explained, the connection parameters can also be specified through the ConnectionSpec properties. The ConnectionSpec properties are used by an application component to pass connection-related properties.

You can specify the relevant ConnectionSpec properties for the outbound request. If you specify both ConnectionSpec properties and Managed Connection Factory properties during run time, the adapter uses the values specified in the ConnectionSpec properties to create a connection and ignores the values in the Managed Connection Factory properties.

The following table lists the ConnectionSpec properties for various authentication mechanisms:

Table 1. ConnectionSpec properties
Authentication mechanism	Properties
Basic	User Name, Password
Single Sign On (SSO)	ssoLogonTicket
X509 Certificate	x509cert

The following table lists the properties available to enable Secure Network Connection (SNC):

Table 2. Secure Network connection properties
Authentication mechanism	Properties
Secure Network Connection (SNC)	sncMyname, sncPartnername, sncQop, sncMode, sncLib

Refer to Enable Secure Network Connection, for more information.

Note: The SSO token / X509 authentication mechanism can also be accomplished by setting the username to "$X509CERT$" (for X509 certificate based authentication) and "$MYSAPSSO2$" (for SSO token based authentication) and setting the password to a base 64 encoded string, which comprises of a SSO token / X509 certificate.

To configure the adapter to create an SAP server connection, see Passing the connection parameters dynamically.