IBM Weather Company Data Limited Edition account details

To establish a connection to IBM® Weather Company Data Limited Edition, you must add an account that defines the account details to connect with. You can define these details by creating a configuration object in the App Connect Dashboard, the Red Hat® OpenShift® web console or CLI, or the Kubernetes CLI.

Account parameters

You can define one or more accounts for IBM Weather Company Data Limited Edition.

For each account that you require, you can specify a new set of account details in any of the following ways:

  • If you are using the App Connect Dashboard, either complete the Account details fields in the Create configuration panel, or specify the account parameters in an accounts.yaml file before importing it into the Create configuration panel. For more information, see Accounts type.
  • If you are using the Red Hat OpenShift web console or CLI, or the Kubernetes CLI, specify the account parameters in an accounts.yaml file, and then use this configuration file to create a configuration object. For more information, see Creating the file for a configuration object of type Accounts.

The set of required and optional Account fields or parameters are listed in the following table.

For information about locating the values for these account parameters, see Locating the values for the account parameters.

Field Parameter Values Condition Description

Account name

name

User defined

Required

The name of an IBM Weather Company Data Limited Edition account that is used in the exported flow.

API key

apiKey

User defined

Required

The API key provided by the IBM Weather Company Data Limited Edition endpoint.

Locating the values for the account parameters

To obtain the API key, contact the local sales office for the IBM Weather Company by taking the following steps.
  1. Go to https://business.weather.com/contact.
  2. Fill out the form with your details.
  3. In the Comments field, request an API key.
  4. Click CONTACT ME! to submit the form.

Example

Remember: An accounts.yaml file that defines one or more accounts must always begin with the following line:
accounts:

  ibmtwc:
    - name: Account 1
      credentials:
        apiKey: 4abcd123efg45678hi333jklmn098f0
      endpoint: {}