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3 Not supported for the current status
Status Functionality already exists
Workspace Watson Studio
Created by Guest
Created on Aug 17, 2017
Merged idea
This idea has been merged into another idea. To comment or vote on this idea, please visit IBMWDP-I-114 Improve ways to get Object Storage credentials.

Object Storage Credentials Merged

There's no way to obtain the Object Storage credentials. Nor does there seems to be a way to provision a new Object Storage instance from within DSX. But maybe this is on the way. And maybe this issue is due to the fact that my account is migrating over from Bluemix.

The only way to grab the OS credentials is to add a file to my object storage, and then from my Notebook palette, click on the 'insert to code' button.

  • Guest
    Dec 14, 2018

    This is a bit finicky feature I agree. In the scala notebook I have, I don't don't have to provide OS credentials. But recently I was given access to someone else's project, and I was forced to create a hard-coded connection there. I wasn't able to understand why the 2 notebooks behaved differently.
    For python, I had to draw a connection always like you said. Absolutely need better improvement here.

  • Guest
    Dec 14, 2018

    You can do this if you log in to Bluemix -- find your credentials and provision a new service.