IBM Netezza Performance Server connection

To access your data in IBM Netezza Performance Server, create a connection asset for it.

Netezza Performance Server is a platform for high performance data warehousing and analytics.

Supported versions

IBM Netezza Performance Server 11.x
IBM Netezza appliance software 7.0.x, 7.1.x, 7.2.x

Create a connection to Netezza Performance Server

To create the connection asset, you need these connection details:

Database name
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 Netezza Performance Server connections in the following workspaces and tools:

Projects

AutoAI (Watson Machine Learning)
Cognos Dashboards (Watson Studio)
Data quality rules (Watson Knowledge Catalog)
DataStage (DataStage service). See Connecting to a data source in DataStage. The Netezza Performance Server (optimized) connection for DataStage gives you increased performance and more features such as before and after SQL statements and reject links. However, you cannot use the "(optimized)" connection outside of the DataStage service.
Metadata enrichment (Watson Knowledge Catalog)
Metadata import (Watson Knowledge Catalog). For information about the supported product versions and other prerequisites when connections are based on MANTA Automated Data Lineage for IBM Cloud Pak for Data scanners, see the Lineage Scanner Configuration section in the MANTA Automated Data Lineage on IBM Cloud Pak for Data Installation and Usage Manual. This documentation is available at https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/node/6597457.

For metadata import (lineage), advanced metadata import must be enabled and a MANTA Automated Data Lineage license key must be installed. See Installing Watson Knowledge Catalog and Enabling lineage import.

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.

Netezza Performance Server setup

Initial system setup information

Restriction

You can use this connection only for source data. You cannot write to data or export data with this connection.

Running SQL statements

To ensure that your SQL statements run correctly, refer to the Netezza Performance Server SQL Extensions toolkit for the correct syntax.

Learn more

IBM Netezza Performance Server documentation

Parent topic: Supported connections