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Watson Discovery

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Start and Stop WD for CP4D scripts to be added to the product

When managing Watson Discovery for Cloud Pak for Data, there are times when we need to restart the system. For example. hardware maintenance, planned outtage, disaster recovery, datacenter migration, etc. In such cases, currently, there is no offi...
almost 4 years ago in Watson Discovery 0 Not under consideration

Watson Discovery Collection as Data Source Assets

Watson Discovery stuff should be added to be as supported in WKC. ie Collections as Data Assets , and ML models/pears etc.. as Language Models etc..
almost 4 years ago in Watson Discovery 0 Planned for future release

Increase collection count limit within each project in WD on prem

For our customer, they want to use project as tenant level or use project to store more different type of data. So there will be more than 5 collections needed for each project. We need a way to customize collection count limit within each project...
almost 4 years ago in Watson Discovery 1 Planned for future release

Project Level Security Needed

We are using Watson Discovery v2.1.2 in CP4D and we see that a user added under “Manage users” for a WD instance with role “Admin” or “User” is able to not only access all project created by other users, but is also able to delete them. Our securi...
almost 4 years ago in Watson Discovery 6 Not under consideration

JSON file of the ML annotations over the TEST set

It would be very useful to being able to download a JSON file of the annotations generated by the ML model, over the TEST set. Currently it is possible to download such JSON file with the annotations done by hand. Getting the ones of the ML over t...
almost 4 years ago in Watson Discovery 0 Not under consideration

Synergy between WD and CPD

I don't know the vision to sell watson discovery alone. Currently, WEXAC and FC customers are not very attractive because WD has to buy a CPD license and probably needs more resources. I wondered if I could somehow propose with synergies in other...
almost 4 years ago in Watson Discovery 0 Not under consideration

Increase document size limit for WD

Currently maximum document size, which can be processed by WD for CP4D is 32Mb. It is very small size limit considering any document which may have embedded images can be much larger. Even WEX limits were higher (up to 128Mb for WEX AC). Please co...
almost 4 years ago in Watson Discovery 2 Not under consideration

Overlap of Left and right view of a page in SDU training

While tranining the SDU , a page is shown on left side with actual text and right side with boxes placed instead of text and coloured by appropriate fields but initially the color of text all over. In a dense document, it becomes difficult for use...
almost 4 years ago in Watson Discovery 1 Functionality already exists

Support WKS subtypes

When uploading a trained WKS model as machine learning enrichment, only entities are detected and indexed, but not subtypes (on WD for CP4D). Please also consider supporting subtypes in the planned real-time NLP feature.
almost 4 years ago in Watson Discovery 2 Not under consideration

Need the custom crawler sample with Python

Currently the custom crawler sample code is Java only. My customer is requesting the Python one for their ease of use and productivity.
about 4 years ago in Watson Discovery 1 Not under consideration