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Create a connection

Before you configure an SAP HANA Database catalog source, create a connection object in Administrator.
If you configure an external secrets manager to connect to the source system, you can use the following authentication tools:
    1In Administrator, select Connections.
    2Click Add Connection.
    3Select SAP HANA and click Next.
    4Enter the connection properties.
    The following table describes the 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.
    Note:
    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.
    Runtime Environment
    The name of the runtime environment where you want to run tasks.
    Host
    SAP HANA server host name.
    Port
    SAP HANA server port number.
    Database Name
    Name of the SAP HANA database.
    Current Schema
    SAP HANA database schema name.
    Specify _SYS_BIC when you use SAP HANA database modelling views.
    Code Page
    The code page of the database server defined in the connection.
    Select a code page from the following list:
    • - MS Windows Latin1
    • - UTF-8
    • - Shift-JIS
    • - ISO 8859-15 Latin 9 (Western European)
    • - ISO 8859-2 Eastern European
    • - ISO 8859-3 Southeast European
    • - ISO 8859-5 Cyrillic
    • - ISO 8859-9 Latin 5 (Turkish)
    • - IBM EBCDIC International Latin-1
    Username
    User name of the SAP HANA account.
    Password
    Password of the SAP HANA account.
    The password can contain alphanumeric characters and the following special characters: ~ ` ! @ # $ % ^ & * ( ) _ - + = [ ] | : ; ' < , > . ? /
    5Click Test to test your connection to the source system.
    6Click Save.