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Driver manager

Driver manager

The Driver Manager within the Configurations section of IBM® watsonx.data provides the functionality to add external JDBC drivers (in .jar file format) required for connecting to HANA (using ngdbc 2.17.12) and MySQL (using mysql-connector/j 8.2.0) within watsonx.data.

The Driver Manager now enables both administrator and non-administrator users to view driver details for monitoring purposes, while maintaining appropriate access controls restricted to administrator users only.

Procedure

To view the details of active drivers, do the following:

  1. Log in to the watsonx.data console.

  2. From the navigation menu, select Configurations and click Driver manager.

  3. Click Add driver and upload files (.jar file). Then click Add.

    This action can only be performed by a admin user. The non-admin users will have only the read-only access.

  4. When the driver validation is completed, click the overflow menu against the driver to assign it to an engine.