SAP OData connection

To access your data in SAP OData, create a connection asset for it.

Use the SAP OData connection to extract data from a SAP system through its exposed OData services.

Supported SAP OData products

The SAP OData connection is supported on SAP products that support the OData protocol version 2. Example products are S4/HANA (on premises or cloud), ERP, and CRM.

Create a connection to SAP OData

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

Credentials type:

  • API Key
  • Basic
  • None

Encryption:
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 > Connect to a data source. See Adding a connection to a project.
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 the SAP OData connection in the following workspaces and tools:

Projects

  • Data Refinery (Watson Studio)
  • 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)
  • Synthetic Data Generator (Synthetic Data Generator service)

Catalogs

  • Platform assets catalog

Federal Information Processing Standards (FIPS) compliance

  • 4.8.0 and 4.8.1: This connection is compliant with FIPS if you installed Cloud Pak for Data on or prior to January, 22, 2024.
  • 4.8.2 and later: This connection is not compliant with FIPS, but it is FIPS-tolerant.

SAP OData setup

See Prerequisites for using the SAP ODATA Connector for the SAP Gateway setup instructions.

Restrictions

  • For Data Refinery, you can use this connection only as a source. You cannot use this connection as a target connection or as a target connected data asset.
  • For SPSS Modeler, you cannot create new entity sets.

Parent topic: Supported connections