There are two stages to externalizing processor options:

• Select the processor options to externalize.

• Provide meaningful names for the externalized options at the process level.

• Externalized processor options are configured at the process level, and therefore are available for all other processors within the process.

• Externalized options within a process must have unique names. However, it is possible to use the same name for an externalized option in other processes.

• The second stage is optional, but Oracle recommends that meaningful names be set to ensure that externalized options can be easily identified.