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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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We invite you to shape the future of IBM, including product roadmaps, by submitting ideas that matter to you the most. Here's how it works:


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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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WD should publish crawl error in the UI - Warnings section

As of now, WD does not publish details / errors happened during incremental crawl. Customer has no option to know of any crawl issues, unless the administrator checks the logs manually. Verizon sees this requirement as critical in operationalising...
7 months ago in Watson Discovery 0 Submitted

Delete button for individual docs/results

Currently there is no simple or interactive way to delete documents within the WDS toolkit making it difficult for non-developers to manage the WDS corpus without having to use curl/sdk/api. While it is easy to upload individual documents via drag...
almost 8 years ago in Watson Discovery 6 Not under consideration

Watson Discovery should parse the tables in PDF documents such that text in each cell is parsed with integrity and not get truncated when there's a line break

Clients expect PDF table parsing to work without errors that truncate text
almost 3 years ago in Watson Discovery 0 Future consideration

Add Metadata to Existing Document

This feature will save lots of computation and scripting
over 7 years ago in Watson Discovery 3 Not under consideration

Enhance Watson Discovery to support kerberos authentication

Based on the current design, Watson Discovery does not support Kerberos authentication. Could we explore options to implement this?
7 months ago in Watson Discovery 0 Submitted

Support creation of custom table labels in SDU that return content in a cell tagged with a unique row/column value

We have many use cases where customers want to be able to analyze tabular data. For example, there are many cases where a customer wants to analyze financial reports to understand how a certain company has been performing. Much of this data is pre...
over 6 years ago in Watson Discovery 1 Not under consideration

IBM connectors for external data sources should allow customizing which content type gets crawled

IBM connectors for external data sources should allow customizing which content type gets crawled. As an example, for the IBM Watson Discovery SharePoint connector allow Customer to configure which content type gets crawled. Customer use case is t...
about 3 years ago in Watson Discovery 1 Not under consideration

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...
over 5 years ago in Watson Discovery 1 Planned for future release

Ability to split paragraphs inside a document

Several documents rely on a structure that leverages a single section for a bunch of unrelated paragraphs, we'd like to do document splitting based on paragraph marks at ingestion time. This could be accomplished by allowing other tags (not only H...
over 7 years ago in Watson Discovery 4 Not under consideration

Make the annotation tool in Watson Discovery colorblind safe

During a recent Client Enablement Workshop, we presented an overview of Watson Discovery and followed it with a hands-on session. This allowed participants to explore the product through guided exercises. However, we encountered an important acces...
8 months ago in Watson Discovery 0 Submitted