IBM Data Virtualization Manager for z/OS connection
To access your data in Data Virtualization Manager for z/OS, create a connection asset for it.
Data Virtualization Manager for z/OS is to access data in your z/OS® mainframe environment.
Supported versions
IBM Data Virtualization Manager for z/OS 1.1.0
Create a connection to Data Virtualization Manager for z/OS
To create the connection asset, you need these connection details:
- Hostname or IP address
- Port number
- Username and password
- SSL certificate (if required by the database server)
For Credentials and Certificates, you can use secrets if a vault is configured for the platform and the service supports vaults. For information, see Using secrets from vaults in connections.
Choose the method for creating a connection based on where you are in the platform
- In a project
- Click Assets > New asset > Data access tools > Connection. See Adding a connection to a project.
- In a catalog
- Click Add to catalog > Connection. See Adding a connection asset to a catalog.
- In a deployment space
- Click Add to space > Connection. See Adding connections to a deployment space.
- In the Platform assets catalog
- Click New connection. See Adding platform connections.
Next step: Add data assets from the connection
Where you can use this connection
You can use Data Virtualization Manager for z/OS connections in the following workspaces and tools:
Projects
- Data Refinery (Watson Studio or Watson Knowledge Catalog)
- DataStage (DataStage service). See Connecting to a data source in DataStage.
- Metadata enrichment (Watson Knowledge Catalog)
- Metadata import (Watson Knowledge Catalog)
- Notebooks (Watson Studio). Use the insert-to-code function to get the connection credentials and load the data into a data structure. See Load data from data source connections.
- SPSS Modeler(SPSS Modeler service)
Catalogs
- Platform assets catalog
- Other catalogs (Watson Knowledge Catalog)
- Watson Query service
- You can connect to this data source from Watson Query.
Restriction
The Data Virtualization Manager for z/OS connection discovers virtual tables, virtual views, and COBOL copybooks in a system Z environment that map to underlying file structures, such as IMS, VSAM, Sequential files, and other mainframe sources. Watson Knowledge Catalog cannot create a virtual asset using this connection. Virtual assets can be created on Cloud Pak for Data using Data Virtualization to combine other non-Z data assets with those discovered by the Data Virtualization Manager for z/OS connection.
Parent topic: Supported connections