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Search results: Watson Studio

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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

allow OPL CPLEX models to use data not only in .csv but also in .dat

In the CPLEX IDE on prem, OPL CPLEX models use .dat file to store data In WML OPL CPLEX models work fine with data in .dat, .csv and .json Allowing .dat files in Watson Studio for OPL CPLEX models would make the move from CPLEX on prem to either W...
over 5 years ago in Watson Studio / Watson Studio on Cloud 1 Not under consideration

Mount the current object storage as a Linux filesystem via FUSE for an entire cluster.

The file system semantics of DSX are too confusing today, and more importantly, they do not work with most of the Python machine learning ecosystem. FUSE allows user programs implementing filesystems to be "mounted" as a Linux filesystem. A quick ...
about 8 years ago in Watson Studio 2 Not under consideration

Allow Export submenu for PPT (*.pptx) Assets

Currently when we created a *.pptx document via Jupyter Notebook using python-pptx and save it to the datasets path, on the data set we can see the *.pptx file created successfully but the Export submenu for this file is un-available.
over 6 years ago in Watson Studio 0 Not under consideration

Add image file and .zip file shortcuts in the data panel with Notebooks (Visual Recognition)

Problem: Using the Visual Recognition API in a Notebook with your own image files or .zip files requires you to upload those files to Cloud Object Storage, and then copy those files from Cloud Object Storage to your Notebook working directory. Usi...
over 7 years ago in Watson Studio 0 Not under consideration

Enable nbextension on IBM Data Science Expeirence

I have to enable File Upload widgets on Jupyter on IBM Data Science Experience, It requires to execute below set of commands pip install fileupload jupyter nbextension install --py fileupload jupyter nbextension enable --py fileupload looks we...
about 8 years ago in Watson Studio 0 Not under consideration

Rotate the Project Activity Log

If you have enabled the Project activities log, it is administratively problematic to keep logging as long as the PV is free. We would like to be able to set the retention period, capacity, number of files, etc. according to the customer's require...
about 5 years ago in Watson Studio 0 Not under consideration

WSL should support Git global ignore pattern files

Currently WSL limits internal Git functionality to mostly the simple actions that are exposed through the web interface. One of these missing functions, global ignore pattern file, is proving critical to the administration and maintenance of our e...
almost 6 years ago in Watson Studio 2 Not under consideration

Upload Spark Job script from project asserts list from Deployment Space

If you want to run a job using the Spark job API, you need to upload your python script (spark code) as described in the documentation. The possible scenarios are as follows. Develop your spark code using jupyter or jupyterLab in your project. Dow...
about 4 years ago in Watson Studio 0 Not under consideration

Allow viewing and editing of any text file

Currently in WSL the only text files you can view / edit are script files saved in the `scripts` directory. You cannot view the contents nor edit any other text file, such as a README.md or .gitignore file saved in the project root directory. Also...
over 6 years ago in Watson Studio 0 Not under consideration