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Add possibility for disabeling Data Refinery

See this idea on ideas.ibm.com

Resources are always an issue in Cloud Pak for Data, especially in small environments with only 48 cores. In installations that support “native” Data Science use cases (that is customers, just using Jupyter notebooks in WSL, doing their stuff in Python and R, probably adding WML), Data Refinery is a functionality never used, but taking resources, both physically on the server, but counting for usage in lisencing as well. As Data Refinery is bundled in other packages, it is not possible to disable or uninstall. A possibility to disable the service would free up unnecessary resources

Needed by Date Jun 30, 2021
  • Guest
    Dec 8, 2021

    After investigation, idle Data Refinery processes only consume 1 VPC of WS common core services. Since Refinery is an important component of both Watson Studio and Knowledge Catalog, the difficulty and potential confusion involved in allowing it to be disabled exceeds the benefit from doing so.