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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

Custom Environment GUI for Persistence in Project and Deployment Space

Currently, there is no GUI available anymore to define custom environments like in CPD 4.0.7. Further, the packages in the definition are not made available nor persist on both project and development space. Thus, the requirement is to have the G...
about 3 years ago in Watson Studio / Watson Studio 0 Not under consideration

Submitting development workloads to CP4D from local IntelliJ Ultimate IDE

Our developers use IntelliJ Ultimate as their IDE and would like to be able to submit development workloads from IntelliJ to CP4D to be able to utilize CP4D's hardware resources while still utilizing the features of a fully equipped IDE, e.g. remo...
about 3 years ago in Watson Studio / Watson Studio 0 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

Support Watson Discovery service as a data destination inside of Data Platform

The Watson Discovery service has ingestion APIs that allow developers to create an interface for sending data to Discovery for use in their end application. Currently, these APIs are their only means of sending data to Discovery, and it is up to e...
almost 8 years ago in Watson Studio 3 Not under consideration

Have the ability to drag / drop as much as we can

This is a general comment. Over the years we've built and worked on many IDE, and richer they are with features, better adoption it gets. The analogy of a notebook is somewhat similar to what a scripting developer would go through in perl/shell c...
about 8 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

Notebook can't be created - There was an unexpected error creating the notebook. Please try again.

It is very frustrating as a developer to see this type of error description that doesn't give any idea where the error might be coming from. I tried creating a notebook, with free tier as well as paid tier - both resulted in the same error. I am t...
almost 7 years ago in Watson Studio 1 Not under consideration

Grey out unsuitable nodes in NN modeler when building a new network

Studio's neural net modeler is designed to make NN development easier for novice data scientists/application developers. At the moment there is no assistance from the interface to guide developers through the process - they are left to trial and e...
over 7 years ago in Watson Studio 1 Not under consideration

Ability to group cells in notebook in order to execute or hide them

This feature is available in some mathematic tools such as Wolfram Mathematica. You can group some cells together in something called a paragraph I think, and you can easily execute a whole paragraph or "reduce" it. This feature would be really us...
about 8 years ago in Watson Studio 0 Not under consideration