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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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Welcome to the IBM Ideas Portal (https://www.ibm.com/ideas) - Use this site to find out additional information and details about the IBM Ideas process and statuses.

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Proposal to Add Vector Search Support to Watson Discovery

Does IBM have any plans to support vector search in Watson Discovery?While we understand that watsonx Discovery and IBM Cloud’s Elasticsearch already offer vector search capabilities, Watson Discovery stands out for its excellent text search accur...
11 months ago in Watson Discovery 0 Submitted

Exclusion of HTML navigation elements in webcrawl

As users of WDS are currently not able to use SDU on crawled web documents, it is impossible to use the field definition and exclusion function WDS provides to exclude unwanted results from the index. In our case, website navigation and footers cr...
over 3 years ago in Watson Discovery 4 Not under consideration

Need access control at project level of Watson Discovery

Customer will use Watson Discovery as the NLP solution. Customer has very specific requirement that group A can only see data set 1, while group B only see data set 2, but in WD, all people can see all projects (including all the files/ data) with...
over 2 years ago in Watson Discovery 1 Not under consideration

Additional granularity for administrative users

It would be helpful if we were able to have a user with administrative permissions, who was unable to run a report. We need our administrators to be able to administer the environment, and potentially edit a report, however they should not be able...
8 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Security 0 Future consideration

Multiple SDU models per Collection

in my domain of business, clients put different kind and format of documents in the same collection. We need the possibility to have multiple SDU models in the same collection. Every SDU model get applied to a specific set of files identified by a...
about 6 years ago in Watson Discovery 3 Not under consideration

Allow Cognos Analytics portal authentication via API Key as a URL Parameter instead of the CAMUsername/CAMPassword/CAMNamespace parameters

With OIDC namespaces, the standard URL parameters for authenticating via URL do not work effectively due to redirects and MFA. This makes it challenging to authenticate directly via URL. It would be idea if we could authenticate via an API Key in ...
9 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Security 0 Future consideration

Implementation of field filter function in Watson Discovery

Our customers are using oneWEX's contnet mining and have migrated their miner collection to WD Premium since June of this year. They used the field filter, which was a function of oneWEX, to divide the text in the field. However, WD does not provi...
over 4 years ago in Watson Discovery 0 Not under consideration

Add support for ssl key lengths greater than 2048 bit

Cognos Analytics currently supports a maximum key length of 2048 bit for ssl certificates. The limit seems to derive from the ThirdPartyCertificateTool, but might affect the whole ecosystem including Planning Analytics, PAW and Jupyter Notebook Se...
about 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Security 0 Future consideration

Improve Smart Document Uderstanding processing time

Real-life scenario: the user uploads a document and the extracted info are needed as input for another tool or ML model (real time scoring is needed). The customer experience suffers from the waiting time. The processing time of one document is to...
about 3 years ago in Watson Discovery 2 Not under consideration

Implement functionality where characters and text strings mandated by corporate security can be restricted from Report names, and the Search box.

It has been suggested by security auditors that we should restrict the use of special characters, <script> tags, etc., in the search box within Cognos Analytics, or implement a setting which will restrict the use of all special and meta char...
over 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Security 0 Not under consideration