To govern your virtual data with business terms, follow these steps.

1. On the navigation menu, click Data > Data virtualization.
   The service menu opens to the Data sources page by default.
2. On the service menu, click Virtualization > Virtualize and click the Tables tab.

   • The list of connections appears in the default Explore view. Click a connection, schema, or table to select it and preview the contents.

   • The list of available tables in your connections appears in the List view. You can filter the listed tables by adding filters on the Data sources page. Additionally, you can search for tables by name, schema, column, or business term.

   • Click a business term to view term information in Watson Knowledge Catalog.
3. Select the table that you want to virtualize and click Add to cart.
4. Click View cart to view your selections.
   From this window, you can also edit the table and schema names, remove a selection from your cart, or edit column names in a table.

   To edit a table name, you can select any of the business terms that are assigned to the table. Thus, the virtual table name matches the business term that is assigned to the source table automatically.

   To edit column names, follow these steps.

   1. In the object action menu, click Edit column names.
      Note: In strict mode, column names are not editable.
   2. Edit column names as needed or select a business term to match the column name.
      If you want to replace all column names with business terms, check the Replace all columns with business terms box.

      If a column has more than one business term assigned, Data Virtualization selects the first business term that was assigned to rename columns.

      You can select business terms to rename columns. However, you cannot edit column names in a table.

   3. Select columns that you want to include in your virtual table.
      Note: You must select the checkbox of the column name for changes to take effect when you click Apply. Changes that you make to columns that are not selected will not take effect when you click Apply.
   4. Click Apply.
5. Select the appropriate option to assign the virtualized table.

   Assign to	When to use this option
   Project	Select Project if you created the virtual table to use in a specific project. Then, choose the appropriate project. The table also appears in Virtualized data.
   Virtualized data	Select Virtualized data if the table was not created to use in a specific project. This setting is the default if no projects exist.

6. Specify a schema in the Schema field.
   You can also create a schema by following these steps.
   • If you have the Data Virtualization Engineer or User role, leave the Schema field as default to create a schema with your user ID.
   • If you have the Data Virtualization Manager role, leave the Schema field as default to create a schema with your user ID or enter the new schema name in the Schema field.
   For more information, see Creating schemas for virtual objects.
7. Click Virtualize to complete the process.
   When the status window appears, you can select to view your virtualized data or virtualize more data.