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About Using External Business Components

External business components are used to access data that resides in a non-Siebel table or view using a Siebel business component. When configuring external business components, you must specify the data source for the external table that contains the data you want to access.

To prevent users having to log in when accessing the external data source, for each data source accessed by an external business component, specify the data source user name and password details using the DSUsername and DSPassword values when configuring the data source named subsystem. The DSUsername and the DSPassword parameters are activated only when using the database security adapter. For information on configuring external business components, see Integration Platform Technologies: Siebel Enterprise Application Integration.