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IBM Data Platform Ideas Portal for Customers


This portal is to open public enhancement requests against products and services offered by the IBM Data Platform organization. To view all of your ideas submitted to IBM, create and manage groups of Ideas, or create an idea explicitly set to be either visible by all (public) or visible only to you and IBM (private), use the IBM Unified Ideas Portal (https://ideas.ibm.com).


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Ability to clone a project

Our signature client the Ministry of Defense likes to have the ability to clone a project in Watson Discovery. They are migrating from Watson Explorer Analytical Components (WEX-AC) to WD. In WEX-AC, there was the possibility to clone a project (c...
about 3 years ago in Watson Discovery 0 Not under consideration

File inclusion and file exclusion filtering in crawler

The Dutch Ministry of Defense is using Watson Discovery for text document archiving purposes as well as text document analysis from these archives. They have experience with Watson Explorer Content Analytics and are migrating to Watson Discovery. ...
about 3 years ago in Watson Discovery 0 Future consideration

Create an out-of-the-box connector to Microsoft Dynamics

MS Dynamics is an important and prominent data source that clients are looking to crawl with Watson Discovery
over 2 years ago in Watson Discovery 0 Submitted

Increased document splitting limit to 15,000

This enhancement would help customers to use the document splitting feature for very large document corpus and avoid any custom solution. Currently implemented for our client with WEX, with documents being split into up to 15000 segments. Related ...
over 7 years ago in Watson Discovery 1 Not under consideration

Schedule for daily or hourly web scraping in Discovery SaaS

At the moment Discovery SaaS has a scheduling option for weekly web scrapes, but this option doesn't exist for daily. Implement a scheduling feature that would accommodate daily or even hourly web scrapes. At the most frequent option for scraping ...
almost 2 years ago in Watson Discovery 0 Submitted

Ability to Specify Target Fields for Natural Language Query (NLQ) in Watson Discovery

Currently, when using NLQ (Natural Language Query), all fields in a document are included as the search target. However, there are cases where certain fields should not be subject to natural language queries (e.g., fields like URIs that indicate t...
11 months ago in Watson Discovery 0 Submitted

Request for Increasing the Synonym Registration Limit in Watson Discovery

This request is related to WDS-I-581. Currently, the maximum number of synonyms you can register in Watson Discovery is limited to 5,000 terms. Would it be possible to increase this limit? Background: We aim to address Japanese orthographic variat...
12 months ago in Watson Discovery 0 Submitted

Smart Document Understanding to produce a readable PDF from original scanned PDF

In solutions where text archives are digitized to become searchable in Watson Discovery, Smart Document Understanding is a promising new feature. However, it does not by side effect produce a searchable (text-based) PDF when OCRing a scanned PDF. ...
almost 6 years ago in Watson Discovery 1 Planned for future release

Screen scroll control when Waton is providing an answer

Sometimes, Watson's answers are very long. It will be extremely useful to be able to control de screen scroll display so the user could read the early responses from Watson's answers. Right now, if Watson is generating a very long answer and I wan...
about 1 year ago in Watson Discovery 0 Submitted

Add capability for Normalization from dictionaries

Add capability for Normalization from dictionaries. At the moment, normalization is done from a generic dictionary, and it is important for clients to have normalization done from their dictionaries.
about 7 years ago in Watson Discovery 0 Not under consideration