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Connection details

The following table describes the basic connection properties:

Property	Description
Connection Name	Name of the connection. Each connection name must be unique within the organization. Connection names can contain alphanumeric characters, spaces, and the following special characters: _ . + -, Maximum length is 255 characters.
Description	Description of the connection. Maximum length is 4000 characters.
Use Secret Vault	Stores sensitive credentials for this connection in the secrets manager that is configured for your organization. This property appears only if secrets manager is set up for your organization. When you enable the secret vault in the connection, you can select which credentials that the Secure Agent retrieves from the secrets manager. If you don't enable this option, the credentials are stored in the repository or on a local Secure Agent, depending on how your organization is configured. If you’re using this connection to apply data access policies through pushdown or proxy services, you cannot use the Secret Vault configuration option. For information about how to configure and use a secrets manager, see "Secrets manager configuration" in the Administrator help .
Runtime Environment	The name of the runtime environment where you want to run tasks. Select a Secure Agent, serverless, or elastic runtime environment. For more information about how to configure a serverless environment, see Configure the serverless runtime environment. For more information about how to configure a elastic environment, see Configure the elastic runtime environment.
Authentication	The authentication type to access the SAP system and process data through the SAP BAPI functions. Select the BAPI Connection authentication type and then configure the authentication-specific parameters.
Username	The user name with the appropriate user authorization to connect to the SAP account.
Password	The password to connect to the SAP account.
Host Name	The host name or IP address of the SAP server to which you want to connect.
Client	The client number of the SAP server. Get the required client number from the SAP system to which you want to connect.
Language	Language code that corresponds to the SAP language. Get the required language code from the SAP system to which you want to connect.
System Number	The system number of the SAP server. Get the required system number from the SAP system to which you want to connect.