To access your data in IBM Cloud Databases for PostgreSQL, create a connection asset for it.
IBM Cloud Databases for PostgreSQL is an open source object-relational database that is highly customizable. It’s a feature-rich enterprise database with JSON support.
Create a connection to IBM Cloud Databases for PostgreSQL
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If you set up an integrated cloud service, select the service instance to automatically fill in the fields in the connection form. Confirm that all the fields are complete.
To create the connection asset, you need these connection details:
Database name
Hostname or IP address of the database
Port number
Username and password
SSL certificate (if required by the database server)
For Private connectivity, to connect to a database that is not externalized to the internet (for example, behind a firewall), you must set up a secure connection.
Choose the method for creating a connection based on where you are in the platform
You can use IBM Cloud Databases for PostgreSQL connections in the following workspaces and tools:
Projects
Notebooks. Click Read data on the Code snippets pane to get the connection credentials and load the data into a data structure. For more information, see Load data from data source connections.
For SPSS Modeler, you can use this connection only to import data. You cannot export data to this connection or to an IBM Cloud Databases for PostgreSQL connected data asset.
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