SAP HANA connection
To access your data in SAP HANA, create a connection asset for it.
SAP HANA is an in-memory, column-oriented, relational database management system.
Prerequisite
The SAP HANA connection requires a JAR file. The Cloud Pak for Data JDBC Driver is available from the Maven repository. Supported SAP HANA JDBC Driver version: 2.9.x. See Importing JDBC drivers for the procedure and required permissions to upload the JAR file to Cloud Pak for Data. Important: By default, uploading JDBC driver files is disabled and users cannot view the list of JDBC drivers in the web client. An administrator must enable users to upload or view JDBC drivers.
Create a connection to SAP HANA
To create the connection asset, you need these connection details:
- SAP HANA JDBC Driver JAR file
- 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 > Prepare data > Connect to a data source. 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 Import assets > Data access > Connection. See Adding data assets to a deployment space.
- In the Platform assets catalog
- Click New connection. See Adding platform connections.
Next step: Add data assets from the connection
Supported Cloud Pak for Data tools and services
You can use SAP HANA connections in the following workspaces and tools:
Projects
- Data quality rules (IBM Knowledge Catalog, IBM Knowledge Catalog Premium). See Supported data sources for curation and data quality.
- Data Refinery (Watson Studio, IBM Knowledge Catalog any edition)
- DataStage (DataStage service). See Connecting to a data source in DataStage.
- Decision Optimization (Watson Studio and Watson Machine Learning)
- Metadata enrichment (IBM Knowledge Catalog any edition). See Supported data sources for curation and data quality.
- Metadata import (IBM Knowledge Catalog any edition). See Supported data sources for curation and data quality.
- Notebooks (Watson Studio). Click Read data on the Code snippets pane 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
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Platform assets catalog
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Other catalogs (IBM Knowledge Catalog)
- Data Product Hub
- You can connect to this data source from Data Product Hub. For instructions, see Connectors for Data Product Hub.
- Data Virtualization service
- You can connect to this data source from Data Virtualization. This connection requires special consideration in Data Virtualization. See Connecting to SAP HANA in Data Virtualization.
Federal Information Processing Standards (FIPS) compliance
The SAP HANA connection cannot be created in a FIPS environment.
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Parent topic: Supported connections