as for Invantive Query Tool the approach having 2 separate xml files is a workaround. We get a serie of errors when Invantive Query Tool starts, then the containers list is shown without the settings*1.xml containing the <credentials (...) /> tag, only remains the second settings*2.xml.
Release 25.0.232 and beyond of the following products ignores the databases with an Invantive Credentials Server definition component (using <credentials>) and are available on download.invantive.com: