Questions tagged [ibm-cloud]

IBM® Cloud platform (formerly Bluemix) combines platform as a service (PaaS) with infrastructure as a service (IaaS) to build, run, deploy, and manage applications on the cloud. Additionally, the IBM Cloud platform has a rich catalog of cloud services that can be easily integrated with your applications. Supported programming languages and runtimes include Java, Node.js, Swift, Go, PHP, Python, and Ruby, and other languages.

IBM Cloud platform is based on open source technology. In addition to using IBM Cloud platform to build Web applications for multiple frameworks - including iOS - you can create Kubernetes and OpenShift clusters, or launch virtual server instances. IBM Cloud platform follows a Hybrid Cloud model meaning that the apps, containers, and VMs that you use with the platform are portable across public, dedicated, and on-premises clouds.

The IBM Cloud platform console provides application boilerplates to help you get started. The IBM Cloud platform console offers a growing catalog of over 100 services to build applications.

Service categories

  • Compute: Obtain access to bare metal and virtual servers
  • Storage: Store unstructured data in the cloud
  • Network: Secure VPN connections, orchestrate load balancing, and use other network services
  • Security: Configure firewalls and secure connections
  • Containers: Deploy Kubernetes and OpenShift clusters and use Docker-based containers
  • VMware: Integrate VMware solutions
  • Boilerplates: Use templates to help you get started with various services
  • APIs: Create, manage, enforce, and run APIs
  • Application Services: Deliver applications that include business rules, automation, an application server, and more
  • Blockchain: Integrate the IBM Blockchain technology in your environment
  • Cloud Foundry Apps: Choose from multiple runtimes including Liberty for Java, SDK for Node.js, and Swift
  • Data & Analytics: Select from a variety of database options, including Compose, and incorporate big data analytics
  • DevOps: Go from application development to deployment with continuous delivery, auto-scaling, globalization, and alert notifications
  • Finance: Manage your investments and finances
  • Functions: Execute serverless event-driven programming (IBM Cloud Functions)
  • Integrate: Access API management, product insights, secure gateway functionality
  • Internet of Things: Manage connected devices using IoT foundation and IoT for electronics
  • Mobile: Integrate push notifications, testing, tuning, and analytics for mobile applications
  • Watson: Add cognitive abilities to applications

When asking questions about the IBM Cloud platform, you should:

  • Ensure you are asking a technical question about using the IBM Cloud platform or services. (For questions about your account or IBM Cloud platform offerings, ask at IBM developerWorks Answers or open a support ticket.)
  • Search Stack Overflow to see if somebody else has already asked the same question.
  • Explain what you were trying to do when you encountered the problem. What software versions were you using? Is there anything else about your environment that could lead to the problem?
  • Provide code samples where possible. Isolate the problem and reproduce it with as little code as possible.
  • Include the tag, plus an additional tag to indicate the service or technology in question.

Getting support for the IBM Cloud platform

  • Ask technical questions on Stack Overflow about programming and deploying applications using the IBM Cloud platform and services. The IBM Cloud platform Development and Support teams monitor Stack Overflow closely.
  • Ask non-technical questions about the IBM Cloud platform offerings at IBM developerWorks Answers. It’s also the best place to ask questions about getting started with the platform.
  • Open a support ticket to get answers to your issue especially if you cannot find the answer in the forums. See Getting Customer Support for details on contacting Support and opening tickets.

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Watson Assistant maintaining conversation using Java SDK

I am trying to implement a chat assistant, using angular as client and calling Watson Assistant API from Java side. For the first call am sending an empty input message and when I receive the context in the response am setting it to next message…
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IBM PowerAI Vision | What are the technical description of CLS and BBox losses ?

I have been training an Object detection model on IBM PowerAI Vision. When i train the model i see the following marked losses. i want to know in deep learning terms what are these losses. Since there are many kinds of losses used for object…
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How to deploy php, nodejs and mysql application to IBM Cloud

I have a small app written with php, node js and mysql. both php and mysql are accessing the same database table. my question is? how do I upload the app to my IBM Cloud account. and how do I start my nodejs server there?
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Streaming directly from IBM COS (Cloud Object Storage)?

I am working on video streaming with nodejs server. I'm using IBM Cloud Object Storage (COS) bucket as video storage. Nodejs app is running in a Cloud Foundry (PAAS) instance. To stream a specific video file in response to a client's request, the…
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How to extract day from date in watson conversation

How to extract day from date in watson conversation. The language is French. I would like if $day=="Samedi" (in English => Saturday) or $day=="Dimanche" (in English => Sunday), the respond is "We do not work Saturday and Sunday"
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IBM Watson Assistant: Why is "Try It" giving me the correct results but my client code is not?

I have created a chat bot in Watson Assistant (see attached workspace file). In "try it" it gives correct results. I have created a client application to consume this chat using ASP.NET Core. There, I am saving the context. Still, the result I am…
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Serverless Watson Deployment? (Questions about integrations with other RESTful services)

Introduction: I feel like I'm missing something terribly obvious about how Watson Assistant should be designed at an architecture level, but maybe I'm not. The specific problem I'm having is that I can't seem to get API calls for information back…
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ReferenceError: Offer is not defined - Hyperledger Composer IBM Blockchain

I'm following a tutorial for Hyperledger Composer on IBM Blockchain I'm stuck in that error This is the transaction: { "$class": "org.acme.vehicle.auction.Offer", "bidPrice": 6000, "listing":…
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Create persistent continous towards changes feed

I am using Cloudant for storing json-objects. They have an API for getting a continous feed with changes happening in the database. What I want to do is create a persistent connection towards this endpoint and call a function (callback) every time…
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Why IBM Watson Assistant Complex object properties do not update?

According to the documentation "If the context variable is a complex type such as JSON object, a JSON merge procedure is used to update the variable. The merge operation adds any newly defined properties and overwrites any existing properties of the…
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How can I save a binary file to my project assets using project-lib python?

The project lib documentation shows how to save a pandas dataframe to the project assets: # Import the lib from project_lib import Project project = Project(sc,"", "") # let's assume you have the pandas DataFrame …
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Choosing IBM DB for the chatbots data

I am creating the chatbot, through which I am trying to collect set of data from the user by asking questions. I have to store those data into DB and then, I should display it back in the front-end. I am using elastic search by using reactivesearch…
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Where clause in pivot-structured table

I have a table in DB2 (oracle syntax) looking like this, let's call it SAMPLE ID TAG_NAME VALUE 13 10 77 13 11 80 14 10 92 14 11 83 What I want to do is select all rows where TAG_NAME 10 has…
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Bash autocomplete for IBM Cloud CLI?

I am using the CLI for IBM Cloud in my bash environment. Is there support for autocomplete, i.e., automatic completion of commands and their options? I am especially interested in the commands for the Kubernetes service and the container registry.
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Watson-IoT event listener in python

I'm trying to create a listener in python that automatically retrieve events from devices in Watson-IoT as they occur. When an event occurs I want to call a specific function. I have read through the documentation and the API-specifications but…
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