Watson Studio

After you create a project in IBM Watson Studio (formerly Data Science Experience), you add data assets to it so that you can work with data. All of the collaborators in the project are automatically authorized to access the data in the project.

How you add data and from where you can add data differs between legacy and IBM Watson projects. IBM Watson projects use IBM Cloud Object Storage. The project is a legacy project if it uses Object Storage OpenStack Swift.

To create a new connection in an IBM Watson project:

  1. Click Add to project > Connection.
  2. Choose a data source.
  3. Enter the connection information required for your data source. Typically, you need to provide information like the host, port number, user name, and password.
  4. You can discover assets from connections to IBM® Db2® Warehouse on Cloud, which gives you the ability to add all tables from the connection as data assets to a project. Select Discover data assets and choose a project.
  5. Click Create. The connection appears on the Assets page.

Watch this video to see how to create a connection and add connected data to a project:

Video that demonstrates how to create a connection and add connected data to a project.

To create a new connection in a legacy project:

  1. From your project's Assets page, click the Find and add data icon.
  2. On the Connections pane, click Create Connection.
  3. Enter a name and description and choose a Service Category:
    • Data Service = IBM Cloud data service

      When you choose Data Service, your existing IBM Cloud data services appear in the Service Instance list.

  4. Choose the service or database server from the list.
  5. Enter the connection information:

    When you choose Data Service, your existing IBM Cloud data services appear in the Service Instance list.

  6. Click Create. The connection is available to all legacy projects.
  7. On the Connections pane, select the connection and click Apply.
To add an existing connection to a legacy project:
  1. From your project's Assets page, click the Find and add data icon.
  2. On the Connections pane, select the connection and click Apply.