diff --git a/adapters/mso-requests-db-adapter/pom.xml b/adapters/mso-requests-db-adapter/pom.xml
index 4a4d09a..a4761ad 100644
--- a/adapters/mso-requests-db-adapter/pom.xml
+++ b/adapters/mso-requests-db-adapter/pom.xml
@@ -59,6 +59,12 @@
 		<dependency>
 			<groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId>
 			<artifactId>spring-boot-starter-data-jpa</artifactId>
+			<exclusions>
+		        <exclusion>
+		            <groupId>org.apache.tomcat</groupId>
+		            <artifactId>tomcat-jdbc</artifactId>
+		         </exclusion>
+     		</exclusions>
 			<optional>true</optional>
 		</dependency>
 		<dependency>
diff --git a/adapters/mso-requests-db-adapter/src/main/resources/application-local.yaml b/adapters/mso-requests-db-adapter/src/main/resources/application-local.yaml
index b2b1627..5d3a837 100644
--- a/adapters/mso-requests-db-adapter/src/main/resources/application-local.yaml
+++ b/adapters/mso-requests-db-adapter/src/main/resources/application-local.yaml
@@ -1,51 +1,51 @@
-# will be used as entry in DB to say SITE OFF/ON for healthcheck
-
-server:
-    port: 8090
-    tomcat:
-        max-threads: 50
-ssl-enable: false
-mso:
-  adapters:
-    requestDb:
-      auth: Basic YnBlbDptc28tZGItMTUwNyE=
-      endpoint: http://localhost:8081
-  logPath: logs
-  site-name: localSite
-  infra-requests:
-    archived:
-      period: 180
-spring:
-  datasource:
-    jdbc-url: jdbc:mariadb://localhost:3306/requestdb
-    username: catalog
-    password: catalog123
-    driver-class-name: org.mariadb.jdbc.Driver
-    initialize: true
-    initialization-mode: never
-  jpa:
-    generate-ddl: false
-    show-sql: false
-    hibernate:
-      ddl-auto: validate
-      naming-strategy: org.hibernate.cfg.ImprovedNamingStrategy
-      enable-lazy-load-no-trans: true
-    database-platform: org.hibernate.dialect.MySQL5InnoDBDialect
-  security:
-    usercredentials:
-    -
-      username: bpel
-      password: '$2a$12$1xyutEZNfjGewIZRfKaE8eZE99f5sYFUmmM80BobI65KNjmcK0JuO'
-      role: BPEL-Client
-    -  
-      username: mso_admin
-      password: '$2a$12$tidKuu.h88E2nuL95pTVY.ZOYMN/1dp29A9b1o.0GFDsVVSYlMkHa'
-      role: ACTUATOR
-
-
-flyway:
-  baseline-on-migrate: false
-  url: jdbc:mariadb://localhost:3306/requestdb
-  user: catalog
-  password: catalog123
+# will be used as entry in DB to say SITE OFF/ON for healthcheck
+
+server:
+    port: 8090
+    tomcat:
+        max-threads: 50
+ssl-enable: false
+mso:
+  adapters:
+    requestDb:
+      auth: Basic YnBlbDptc28tZGItMTUwNyE=
+      endpoint: http://localhost:8081
+  logPath: logs
+  site-name: localSite
+  infra-requests:
+    archived:
+      period: 180
+spring:
+  datasource:
+    url: jdbc:mariadb://localhost:3306/requestdb
+    username: catalog
+    password: catalog123
+    driver-class-name: org.mariadb.jdbc.Driver
+    initialize: true
+    initialization-mode: never
+  jpa:
+    generate-ddl: false
+    show-sql: false
+    hibernate:
+      ddl-auto: validate
+      naming-strategy: org.hibernate.cfg.ImprovedNamingStrategy
+      enable-lazy-load-no-trans: true
+    database-platform: org.hibernate.dialect.MySQL5InnoDBDialect
+  security:
+    usercredentials:
+    -
+      username: bpel
+      password: '$2a$12$1xyutEZNfjGewIZRfKaE8eZE99f5sYFUmmM80BobI65KNjmcK0JuO'
+      role: BPEL-Client
+    -  
+      username: mso_admin
+      password: '$2a$12$tidKuu.h88E2nuL95pTVY.ZOYMN/1dp29A9b1o.0GFDsVVSYlMkHa'
+      role: ACTUATOR
+
+
+flyway:
+  baseline-on-migrate: false
+  url: jdbc:mariadb://localhost:3306/requestdb
+  user: catalog
+  password: catalog123
       
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/adapters/mso-requests-db-adapter/src/main/resources/application.yaml b/adapters/mso-requests-db-adapter/src/main/resources/application.yaml
index 0da782b..9429592 100644
--- a/adapters/mso-requests-db-adapter/src/main/resources/application.yaml
+++ b/adapters/mso-requests-db-adapter/src/main/resources/application.yaml
@@ -18,15 +18,10 @@
 # H2
 spring:
   datasource:
-    jdbc-url: jdbc:mariadb://${DB_HOST}:${DB_PORT}/requestdb
+    url: jdbc:mariadb://${DB_HOST}:${DB_PORT}/requestdb
     username: ${DB_USERNAME}
     password: ${DB_PASSWORD}
     driver-class-name: org.mariadb.jdbc.Driver
-    dbcp2: 
-      initial-size: 5
-      max-total: 20
-      validation-query: select 1
-      test-on-borrow: true 
   jpa:
       show-sql: false
       hibernate:
diff --git a/adapters/mso-requests-db-adapter/src/test/resources/application-test.yaml b/adapters/mso-requests-db-adapter/src/test/resources/application-test.yaml
index 19bff50..db98852 100644
--- a/adapters/mso-requests-db-adapter/src/test/resources/application-test.yaml
+++ b/adapters/mso-requests-db-adapter/src/test/resources/application-test.yaml
@@ -1,70 +1,70 @@
-# will be used as entry in DB to say SITE OFF/ON for healthcheck
-security:
-  basic:
-    enabled: false
-server:
-    port: 8080
-    tomcat:
-        max-threads: 50
-ssl-enable: false
-mso:
-  adapters:
-    requestDb:
-      auth: Basic YnBlbDptc28tZGItMTUwNyE=
-      endpoint: http://localhost:8081
-  logPath: logs
-  site-name: localSite
-  infra-requests:
-    archived:
-      period: 0
-spring:
-  datasource:
-    jdbc-url: jdbc:mariadb://localhost:3307/requestdb
-    username: root
-    password: password
-    driver-class-name: org.mariadb.jdbc.Driver
-    initialize: true
-    initialization-mode: never
-  jpa:   
-    generate-ddl: false
-    show-sql: false
-    hibernate:      
-      ddl-auto: validate
-      naming-strategy: org.hibernate.cfg.ImprovedNamingStrategy
-      enable-lazy-load-no-trans: true
-    database-platform: org.hibernate.dialect.MySQL5InnoDBDialect
-  security:
-    usercredentials:
-    -
-      username: bpel
-      password: '$2a$12$1xyutEZNfjGewIZRfKaE8eZE99f5sYFUmmM80BobI65KNjmcK0JuO'
-      role: BPEL-Client
-    -  
-      username: mso_admin
-      password: '$2a$12$tidKuu.h88E2nuL95pTVY.ZOYMN/1dp29A9b1o.0GFDsVVSYlMkHa'
-      role: ACTUATOR
-mariaDB4j:
-  dataDir: 
-  port: 3307
-  databaseName: requestdb
-
-management:
-  endpoints:
-    web:
-      base-path: /manage
-  server:
-    servlet:
-      context-path: /manage
-  metrics:
-    se-global-registry: false
-    export:
-      prometheus:
-        enabled: true # Whether exporting of metrics to Prometheus is enabled.
-        step: 1m # Step size (i.e. reporting frequency) to use.  
-
-
-flyway:
-  baseline-on-migrate: false
-  jdbc-url: jdbc:mariadb://localhost:3307/requestdb
-  user: root
-  password: password
+# will be used as entry in DB to say SITE OFF/ON for healthcheck
+security:
+  basic:
+    enabled: false
+server:
+    port: 8080
+    tomcat:
+        max-threads: 50
+ssl-enable: false
+mso:
+  adapters:
+    requestDb:
+      auth: Basic YnBlbDptc28tZGItMTUwNyE=
+      endpoint: http://localhost:8081
+  logPath: logs
+  site-name: localSite
+  infra-requests:
+    archived:
+      period: 0
+spring:
+  datasource:
+    url: jdbc:mariadb://localhost:3307/requestdb
+    username: root
+    password: password
+    driver-class-name: org.mariadb.jdbc.Driver
+    initialize: true
+    initialization-mode: never
+  jpa:   
+    generate-ddl: false
+    show-sql: false
+    hibernate:      
+      ddl-auto: validate
+      naming-strategy: org.hibernate.cfg.ImprovedNamingStrategy
+      enable-lazy-load-no-trans: true
+    database-platform: org.hibernate.dialect.MySQL5InnoDBDialect
+  security:
+    usercredentials:
+    -
+      username: bpel
+      password: '$2a$12$1xyutEZNfjGewIZRfKaE8eZE99f5sYFUmmM80BobI65KNjmcK0JuO'
+      role: BPEL-Client
+    -  
+      username: mso_admin
+      password: '$2a$12$tidKuu.h88E2nuL95pTVY.ZOYMN/1dp29A9b1o.0GFDsVVSYlMkHa'
+      role: ACTUATOR
+mariaDB4j:
+  dataDir: 
+  port: 3307
+  databaseName: requestdb
+
+management:
+  endpoints:
+    web:
+      base-path: /manage
+  server:
+    servlet:
+      context-path: /manage
+  metrics:
+    se-global-registry: false
+    export:
+      prometheus:
+        enabled: true # Whether exporting of metrics to Prometheus is enabled.
+        step: 1m # Step size (i.e. reporting frequency) to use.  
+
+
+flyway:
+  baseline-on-migrate: false
+  url: jdbc:mariadb://localhost:3307/requestdb
+  user: root
+  password: password