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Watson Discovery

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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...
over 1 year ago in Watson Discovery 1 Not under consideration

API to import SDU Model to a collection

Currently i can create configurations, create collection and add the config to the collection, update stop words , the only thing I cannot do is import the SDU model. This functionality is requested by few clients as they manage the initial creati...
over 3 years ago in Watson Discovery 0 Not under consideration

Start and Stop WD for CP4D scripts to be added to the product

When managing Watson Discovery for Cloud Pak for Data, there are times when we need to restart the system. For example. hardware maintenance, planned outtage, disaster recovery, datacenter migration, etc. In such cases, currently, there is no offi...
almost 4 years ago in Watson Discovery 0 Not under consideration

View Synonym and Stopword Files in Discovery v2

We should be able to see the filename for Stopwords and Synonyms, when it was uploaded, and by whom. We should be able to view the stopword or synonym file before blindly deleting it. We should also be able to save/download the file.
8 months ago in Watson Discovery 0 Not under consideration

Project Level Security Needed

We are using Watson Discovery v2.1.2 in CP4D and we see that a user added under “Manage users” for a WD instance with role “Admin” or “User” is able to not only access all project created by other users, but is also able to delete them. Our securi...
almost 4 years ago in Watson Discovery 6 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 2 years ago in Watson Discovery 0 Not under consideration

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...
over 1 year 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. ...
over 1 year ago in Watson Discovery 0 Future consideration

Allow user defined dictionary for Kuromoji tokenization use under Japanese

Requesting to allow users to define their list of user_dictionary words for the purpose of Kuromoji’s tokenizer. I understand that WDS uses Kuromoji underneath for Japanese language. A key function of Kuromoji as the morphological analyzer for Jap...
over 6 years ago in Watson Discovery 0 Not under consideration

Need capability to backup and restore collections across environments

#SalesForce, #ServiceNow, #Watson Teacher Advisor : In WDS, there are No backup/restore tooling for collections. This is affecting migration of collections across environments such as from dev to staging/testing and then to production. This is aff...
over 6 years ago in Watson Discovery 1 Planned for future release