Connecting to IBM Cloud Object Storage in Watson Query

Before you begin

To access data that is stored in Cloud Object Storage, you must create a connection to the data source where the files are located. Watson Query integrates with object storage connections and supports PARQUET (or PARQUETFILE), Optimized Row Columnar (ORC), comma-separated values (CSV), tab-separated values (TSV), and JSON data formats. All other file formats are not supported.

Procedure

To connect to IBM Cloud Object Storage in Watson Query, follow these steps.

Authenticating for Watson Query object storage connections is standard for all supported platforms.

1. On the navigation menu, click Data > Data virtualization. The service menu opens to the Data sources page by default.

2. Click Add connection > New connection to see a list of data sources that can be added to Watson Query.

3. Select the Cloud Object Storage data source connection.

4. Enter the connection name and description.

5. To configure a Cloud Object Storage connection, you must provide values for the following parameters.

   • Bucket
   • Endpoint URL
   • Access key
   • Secret key

6. To find the values for the Access key and Secret key, follow these steps.

   Note: The Secret key field is not enabled until you enter an Access key.
   1. Go to the Cloud Object Storage Resource list at https://cloud.ibm.com/resources.
   2. Expand the Storage resource.
   3. Click the Cloud Object Storage service, and then click Service credentials.
   4. Expand the Key name that you want to use. Copy the following values without the quotation marks.
      • Access key: access_key_id
      • Secret key: secret_access_key

   For more information, see Service credentials.

7. Click Create to add the connection to the data source environment.

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