Accessing data

With IBM Cloud Pak® for Data, you can connect to the different data sources in your enterprise so that everyone can find the data that they need quickly and easily.

Services and Common core services Many of the following features rely on services or the Cloud Pak for Data common core services. If you can't find these features, the services that you need aren't installed.

Connect to data sources

You can create a connection to a data source from the Cloud Pak for Data web client. The steps that you follow depend on how the connection is used:

Virtualize data

If you need to consolidate data that is available in multiple data sets into a single table, you can virtualize the data by joining the tables. For more information, see Virtualizing data.

Search for data

You can search for the data that you need either from the toolbar, or from the catalog. See Searching for data and assets across projects and catalogs.

Request access to data

Sometimes you need data that isn't in a catalog or that you don't have access to. If you can't find what you need, you can submit a data request.