With versions of the Siebel Adapter prior to 6.0 SP3, you must configure a connection for each user connecting to the Siebel Server by providing individual user name and password credentials for each connection. For example, if multiple users needed to connect to the same Siebel Server, you were required to configure one connection for each user at design time.

With Siebel Adapter 6.0 SP3, you can dynamically provide the user name and password credentials associated with a specific adapter service at run time. This capability enables you to override the connection that was associated with the adapter service at design time. If you provide the user name and password credentials in an adapter service at run time, the Siebel Adapter connects to the Siebel Server using the new credentials, along with the other connection parameters associated with the service's associated connection. If you do not provide any user credentials at run time, the adapter service is invoked using the user credentials provided at design time.