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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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Allow custom IDs for documents when adding them to the discovery index

Whenever we face discovery setups with multiple stages or environments, its very hard and time consuming to manage multiple copies of the same document as discovery generates a new, different ID for each document in each collection. It would make ...
almost 7 years ago in Watson Discovery 1 Functionality already exists

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

metadata ddl change information in the SMP/e HOLD and offer new utility similar to Db2z CATMAINT

Whenever new db2zAI fix introduces metadata catalog changes. customer is trying to make sure their next upgrade/maintenance rollout would take backup and fallback procedures into account Customer suggests Db2zAI upgrade/maintenance SMP/e deliverab...
over 2 years ago in Db2 AI for z/OS 1 Future consideration

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

High-Performance DBAT Management

Currently, the DCC module shows data about connections and profiles, but it still has no High-Performance DBAT information. It would be very useful for our organization if DB2ZAI helped with High-Performance DBAT management, providing data for ver...
over 1 year ago in Db2 AI for z/OS 1 Planned for future release

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

Showing the QUERYNO in the accesspath for static sql

When I look at any APDETAIL of a static sql it does not show me the value of the QUERYNO even though in the report the field exists.Not all columns of the PLAN_TABLE will be shown in the access path details. The columns that are not shown, though,...
almost 2 years ago in Db2 AI for z/OS 0 Future consideration