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Status Not under consideration
Workspace Product Master
Created by Guest
Created on Jan 14, 2021

Allow configurable setting for com.ibm.ml.util.HTTPUtil connection.setConnectTimeout() and connection.setReadTimeout()

Machine Learning attribute classification fails intermittently due to read timeout. The (java) workflow engine is waiting on the machine learning (python) process to complete. For large datasets, there’s no way to speed it up. The machine learning python process will only use a single CPU. We have fast CPUs so throwing more hardware at the problem won’t solve it. In product master 12.0.2, the java workflow engine connection and read timeouts are hard coded to 30 seconds. This is a problem that has no apparent workaround. The value would be that customers would be able to have a functional machine learning process for larger product categories.

Needed by Date Jan 14, 2021