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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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Data masking for ingested WDS documents

We have a client request to provide capability to mask sensitive data from ingested documents. This is to serve 2 purposes; i) general company wide data privacy requirements, ii) masking sensitive data from developers If a function was available t...
over 7 years ago in Watson Discovery 0 Not under consideration

Support for authentication other than basic authentication on web crawlers

Watson Discovery's web crawlers implement Basic authentication support as website access authentication. Currently, there are few basic authentications for websites that are used commercially in the world, and most of them are "form authenticat...
over 4 years ago in Watson Discovery 0 Not under consideration

Need to return Normalized entity values from WKS custom model

Applying annotation to documents ingested into WDS using a custom WKS model allows the client to tag content based on their own vocabulary/domain. Currently WKS model can't be configured with the normalizeEntities flag (like Alchemy used to be) an...
about 8 years ago in Watson Discovery 0 Not under consideration

Discovery | Requirement to make a Field Non-Searchable + Returned as part of any Search Query

We are currently performing a Migration activity for Verizon (WEX to Discovery). In Watson Explorer, we have a concept of "weights" for fields. For example, a weight of (-1) makes a particular field Non-Searchable. Further, even if a field is "Non...
7 months ago in Watson Discovery 0 Under review

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