Connect to Workday Data in RapidMiner

This article shows how you can easily integrate the CData JDBC driver for Workday into your processes in RapidMiner. This article uses the CData JDBC Driver for Workday to transfer Workday data to a process in RapidMiner.

Connect to Workday in RapidMiner as a JDBC Data Source

You can follow the procedure below to establish a JDBC connection to Workday:

1. Add a new database driver for Workday: Click Connections -> Manage Database Drivers.
2. In the resulting wizard, click the Add button and enter a name for the connection.
3. Enter the prefix for the JDBC URL: jdbc:workday:
4. Enter the path to the cdata.jdbc.workday.jar file, located in the lib subfolder of the installation directory.
5. Enter the driver class: cdata.jdbc.workday.WorkdayDriver
6. Create a new Workday connection: Click Connections -> Manage Database Connections.
7. Enter a name for your connection.
8. For Database System, select the Workday driver you configured previously.
9. Enter your connection string in the Host box.

   To connect, there are three pieces of information required: Authentication, API URL, and WSDL URL.

   Authentication

   To authenticate, specify your User and Password. Note that you must append your Tenant to your User separated by an '@' character. For instance, if you normally log in with 'geraldg' and your Tenant is 'mycompany_mc1', then your User should be specified as 'geraldg@mycompany_mc1'.

   API URL

   The API URL may be specified either directly via APIURL, or it may be constructed from the Tenant, Service, and Host. The APIURL is constructed in the following format: <Host>/ccx/service/<Tenant>/<Service>.

   WSDL URL

   The WSDLURL may be specified in its entirety, or may be constructed from the Service and WSDLVersion connection properties. The WSDLURL is constructed in the following format: https://community.workday.com/sites/default/files/file-hosting/productionapi/<Service>/<WSDLVersion>/<Service>.wsdl

   Built-in Connection String Designer

   For assistance in constructing the JDBC URL, use the connection string designer built into the Workday JDBC Driver. Either double-click the JAR file or execute the jar file from the command-line.

   java -jar cdata.jdbc.workday.jar

   Fill in the connection properties and copy the connection string to the clipboard.

   A typical connection string is below:

   User=myuser;Password=mypassword;Tenant=mycompany_gm1;Host=https://wd3-impl-services1.workday.com
10. Enter your username and password if necessary.

You can now use your Workday connection with the various RapidMiner operators in your process. To retrieve Workday data, drag the Retrieve operator from the Operators view. With the Retrieve operator selected, you can then define which table to retrieve in the Parameters view by clicking the folder icon next to the "repository entry." In the resulting Repository Browser, you can expand your connection node to select the desired example set.

Finally, wire the output to the Retrieve process to a result, and run the process to see the Workday data.