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Search results: Watson Studio

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Attach "library code" to Project

A common path for an analytics project is 1. Create several notebooks investigating various hypotheses 2. Identify common code across notebooks and refactor that code out into a common library . . . 99. Build a portable version of library code a...
about 8 years ago in Watson Studio 2 Not under consideration

Allow for auto-generated names of WDP assets

We seem to have adopted a convention where every dataset, notebook, pipeline, connector, etc. requires a user-supplied name before it can be created. I can see where the names are valuable in a large project over time but when you're just getting ...
about 8 years ago in Watson Studio 1 Not under consideration

User Management: Must support AD groups and role mapping.

AD groups should be leading in access granding, not WSL process. LDAP should do autherization and authentication.Once LDAP group is setup, it should be respected and not allow re-authentication without check LDAP group status. If LDAP policy is de...
about 6 years ago in Watson Studio 0 Not under consideration

Jupyter Notebook Migration

Logged on behalf of customer Epsilon: We have feedback from one of our development directors Both fall into Enhancement category 1. Add ability to export DSX notebook as a python script (basically it would just strip all the markdown formatting a...
over 6 years ago in Watson Studio 0 Functionality already exists

Credentials Management in Projects, Insert-to-Code, and Project-lib

The Watson Studio Notebook user interface allows you to insert code snippets and credentials for data connections and data assets into your notebook code. The problem is that it puts usernames and passwords in cleartext into the code even if you h...
over 7 years ago in Watson Studio 1 Not under consideration

Support distributed execution through SPSS Modeler (ie Canvas) component

This component is not using the Spark backend of IBM® Data Science Experience Local. There is no distribution of SPSS jobs at the moment that can leverage Spark or Cloudera backend. Today a full IBM® Data Science Experience pipeline made of for ex...
over 7 years ago in Watson Studio 0 Not under consideration

Notebooks should highlight errors

If a notebook has an error, the offending line should be highlighted. If you don't check the output, it's possible you might not even realize there was an error. For example: #Print out the schemaexample1_df.printSchema() #Advanced Option 1example...
almost 8 years ago in Watson Studio 0 Not under consideration

Make collaborators easier to see

The "My Projects" view displays up to N collaborators next to a project's name. (1) The first collaborator appears to be the DSX user that's logged in. Since that user has to be implicitly a collaborator (or else the project wouldn't be visible)...
over 8 years ago in Watson Studio 0 Not under consideration

Allow to JOIN even when data types are different.

We can't choose columns as join key when they have different data types. For example we have two csv files as below. FirstName.csv ID, FirstName 1, taro 2, hanako LastName.csv ID, LastName 1, yamada 2, sato When we create DR flow with FirstName.cs...
over 5 years ago in Watson Studio 1 Not under consideration

Add support for Oracle DB configured with Oracle Wallet

Connect to Oracle DB configured with Oracle Wallet. Requested during POC, still not available in the Watson Studio. The feature is required as all our Oracle DB is configure with Oracle Wallet. We need this to be supported. • Version of your WSL =...
about 6 years ago in Watson Studio 1 Not under consideration