IBM Cloud Databases for PostgreSQL connection

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

To create the connection asset, you need the following 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 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 > Data access tools > Connection. See Adding a connection to a project.
In a catalog: Click Add to catalog > Connection. See Adding a connection asset to a catalog.
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 IBM Cloud Databases for PostgreSQL connections in the following workspaces and tools:

Projects

Cognos Dashboards (Cognos Dashboards service)
DataStage (DataStage service). For more information, see Connecting to a data source in DataStage.
Metadata enrichment (IBM Knowledge Catalog). For more information, see Supported data sources for metadata import, metadata enrichment, and data quality rules.
Metadata import (IBM Knowledge Catalog). For information about the supported product versions and other prerequisites when connections are based on MANTA Automated Data Lineage for IBM Cloud Pak for Data scanners, see the Lineage Scanner Configuration section in the MANTA Automated Data Lineage on IBM Cloud Pak for Data Installation and Usage Manual. This documentation is available at https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/node/6597457.

For metadata import (lineage), MANTA Automated Data Lineage for IBM Cloud Pak for Data and a corresponding license key must be installed. See Installing MANTA Automated Data Lineage and Enabling lineage import.
Notebooks (Watson Studio). 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.
SPSS Modeler (SPSS Modeler service)
Synthetic Data Generator (Synthetic Data Generator service)

Catalogs

Platform assets catalog
Other catalogs (IBM Knowledge Catalog)

Watson Query service: You can connect to this data source from Watson Query.

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. However, the connection is not compliant if it requires SSL.
4.8.2 and later: This connection is not compliant with FIPS, but it is FIPS-tolerant.

IBM Cloud Databases for PostgreSQL setup

Restriction

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.

Running SQL statements

To ensure that your SQL statements run correctly, refer to the IBM Cloud Databases for PostgreSQL documentation for the correct syntax.

Learn more

IBM Cloud Databases for PostgreSQL documentation

Parent topic: Supported connections