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