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Creating a virtualized table from a single data source in Data Virtualization

Last updated: Mar 17, 2025
Creating a virtualized table in Data Virtualization
You can create a virtual table that uses any of the supported data sources.

About this task

These steps describe how to virtualize data without business terms. If you want to govern your virtual data, see Governing virtual data.

Procedure

  1. On the navigation menu, click Data > Data virtualization to reveal the service menu.
    The service menu opens to the Data sources page by default.
  2. On the service menu, click Virtualization > Virtualize and click the Tables tab.

    The list of connections appears in the default Explore view. Click a connection, schema, or table to select it and preview the contents.

    The Explore view.

    The list of available tables in your connections appears in the List view. You can filter the listed tables by adding filters on the Data sources page. Additionally, you can search for tables by name, schema, column, or business term.

    Note: When you add data source connections in Data Virtualization, you might need to refresh the Virtualize page twice. The first refresh notification is displayed when new data source connections are added. Click Refresh to reload tables, including new connections. After tables reload, a second notification is displayed. Click Refresh again to update your table list with newly loaded tables.
    The List view.

    The list of available tables includes tables in which the read permission is not granted (nonreadable tables).

  3. If you create a virtual table that includes a nonreadable table, select one of the following options to make your virtual table queryable.
    • Option 1: Ensure that the user who is assigned to the data source connection can access the nonreadable table. You can add this access before or after the table is virtualized.
    • Option 2: Create a data source connection in Data Virtualization to access the same data source with credentials for a separate user that does have read-access to the table.
  4. Select the table that you want to virtualize and click Add to cart.
  5. Click View cart to view your selections. From this window, you can also edit the table and schema names or remove a selection from your cart.
  6. Select the appropriate sharing options for the virtualized table.
  7. Select Publish to catalog if you also want to publish to a selected catalog.
    A list of available catalogs is shown in the drop-down menu. Each catalog is tagged as Governed or Not governed.
    Note: You must have at least one catalog in IBM Knowledge Catalog.

    You must have permission to publish to a catalog. An administrator can enable whether all virtual objects are published to a selected governed catalog, which prevents a user from publishing to a specified catalog.

  8. Specify a schema in the Schema field.
    You can also create a schema by following these steps.
    • If you have the Data Virtualization Engineer or User role, leave the Schema field as default to create a schema with your user ID.
    • If you have the Data Virtualization Manager role, leave the Schema field as default to create a schema with your user ID or enter the new schema name in the Schema field.
    For more information, see Creating schemas for virtual objects.
  9. Click Virtualize to complete the process.
    When the status window appears, you can select to view your virtualized data or virtualize more data.
  10. Click View virtualized data to see your newly created tables.

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