You could have an entire connection string as a parameter or just portions of it – a server name for example.
EDT 5.x Release history
EDT 5.1.4 15/02/2019 When scheduling EDT tasks (using the included utility EDTCmdLine.exe), passing filename parameters containing spaces would fail.
EDT 5.1.3 13/02/2019 Message 'Could not parse SQL' resolved when using the 5.1 file list feature.
EDT 5.1.2 8/02/2019 New feature added Task Parameter file selection from a folder, with file extension matching. Please see screen shot above.
EDT 5.0.125 4/01/2019 Special Merge code '{XL-Merge:EDT_Mode}' sometimes used by custom stored procedures was not being set correctly. Affecting Version 5 only.
EDT 5.0.124 14/12/2018 New Freeze panes default setting added to task Interface settings. On some machines freeze panes interfered with task layout. This settings allows freeze panes to be disabled at task level.
EDT 5.0.122 12/12/2018 Client report of column misalignment when switching tasks, release to test a possible fix
EDT 5.0.121 05/12/2018 Validation error when Immediate Validation not used in Task design
EDT 5.0.120 03/12/2018 Lookup column functionality - initial lookup on data load was only working for User type columns
EDT 5.0.116 26/11/2018 New task option (Interface options) Confirm Change task when incomplete. By default when switching to a different task EDT will prompt for confirmation if there are unsaved changes. Un-checking this task level option will suppress this prompt.
EDT 5.0.115 22/11/2018 Excessive delay when modifying a task resolved. Maximise window by default on Task Modify.
EDT 5.0.114 22/11/2018 Error message resolved : Error 9 [Subscript out of range] Line: 50 in procedure GatherRowValues of Module modEDT_GlobalMethods.
EDT 5.0.113 21/11/2018 Amendments Global Parameters functionality.
EDT 5.0.109 14/11/2018 Initial V5 release.