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Search results: Watson Studio

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Introduce a new shiny deployment option (similar to shinyapps.io)

Why don't we make a feature similar to the RStudio's "deploy to shinyapps" ability. So basically you can deploy a shiny app from your RStudio with 1 click to the cloud. Shinyapps.io is not an IBM site, may be we could introduce similar thing based...
about 8 years ago in Watson Studio 7 Not under consideration

Support notebook code to write any file format and allow user to 'Export' (download)

Currently, DSXL only supports writing .csv files in Data Sets. In that case, the user can view the file and export/download the file to the local machine for further processing.Other file formats can be written, but the file cannot be viewed or ex...
over 7 years ago in Watson Studio 2 Not under consideration

Default RStudio environment definition should be increased to 2 vCPU and 4 GB RAM.

As Data Scientist we are working a lot with RStudio. The default RStudio environment definition (1 vCPU and 1 GB RAM) is too small for RStudio. The limit of 1 GB is quickly reached and the pod is then restarted. And you do not understand what happ...
almost 4 years ago in Watson Studio / Watson Studio 1 Not under consideration

Support human-readable reports on machine learning model change to provide traceability

Today Watson Studio supports lineage of both model and data via graphical UI. However it doesn't seem to support generating a human readable report to describe the changes (e.g. adding / removing features, model parameters). In order to better sup...
over 6 years ago in Watson Studio 1 Not under consideration

Please have scheduler interval timeout to be defined for lesser than 5minutes.

Please have scheduler interval timeout to be defined for lesser than 5minutes. We have a use case where we want the notebook to run for every 5 minutes. Since the current functionality restricts us to have a minimum of 1hour, we are unable to ge...
about 8 years ago in Watson Studio 0 Not under consideration

CP4D GITlab subgroups not available

When you try to use your repository, as subfolders do not reference a .git to bind to this will not work . Example Below As you can see that if we load the repo address using the .git extension. we will be redirected back to the repo. -> image ...
almost 5 years ago in Watson Studio 0 Not under consideration

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

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