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I am using Public Bluemix. I have provisioned a dashDB service instance using my IBM ID in Bluemix. I have also provisioned a Object Storage service. I would like to load files from Object Storage into dashDB.

When I try to define a load job in dashDB to get a file from Object Storage, I face a problem.

dashDB allows me to choose either Amazon S3 or Swift Object Store as the data source. I chose "Swift" and then provided the following Bluemix Object Store service credentials.

  1. Public authentication endpoint : https://identity.open.softlayer.com
  2. User name: as found in my my Bluemix Object Store credentials 'username'
  3. API access key: as found in my my Bluemix Object Store credentials 'password'

Then, I clicked "Browse swift files", expecting to see the files which exist in my Bluemix Object Store's container. But, it shows me just a blank folder and no files.

I need to understand the method to connect Bluemix dashDB to Bluemix Object Store. Please help.

ralphearle
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Aditya Dutta
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  • Hi Aditya, so did you find a solution for connecting dashDB on BlueMix with whatever storage solution also on BlueMix? – Mike Pala Oct 03 '16 at 19:03
  • Hello, Can someone officially confirm this? That one can import data from Amazon S3 or Softlayer object storage to Bluemix Dash DB, but cannot do so from Bluemix Object Storage. – jeet Jan 09 '17 at 10:24

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I'm having trouble getting this to work too.

At first, I found an answer on dWAnswers that said this may not be supported.

https://developer.ibm.com/answers/questions/166630/dataworks-integration-between-object-storage-and-d.html

Edit:

The Bluemix support team got back to me with the following message:

For loading from Swift, Bluemix Object Storage is not supported and only object storage on SoftLayer is supported at this time.

Thanks.

joe
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