Connectors for projects and catalogs

You can add connections to a broad array of data sources in projects and catalogs. Source connections can be used to read data; target connections can be used to load (save) data. When you create a target connection, be sure to use credentials that have Write permission or you won't be able to save data to the target.

In IBM watsonx.data, the following connectors are supported:

  • For unstructured data - Amazon S3, Box, IBM FileNet P8, and Microsoft SharePoint.

  • For structured data - Amazon S3, IBM Cloud Object Storage, Google Cloud Storage, Microsoft Azure Data Lake Storage, IBM Db2, PostgreSQL, IBM Netezza Performance Server, Snowflake, Oracle, and Microsoft SQL Server.

    Tip:

Currently Access Control List (ACL) is supported only for Amazon S3 and Box. For more details about ACL, see Access Controlled Lists (ACL).

From a project, you must create a connection to a data source before you can read data from it or load data to it.

From a catalog, you must add a connection asset before you can add data assets for the tables you can access from the connection.

Important: Connections that are not FIPS-compliant will not work on FIPS-enabled clusters. You will need to switch to FIPS-tolerant mode to use connectors that are not FIPS-compliant.

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