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Watson Discovery

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Multiple rankers per collection

Are there any plans to suppport more than one ranker for a given Discovery collection. This would help us train and test a "ranker B" while "ranker A" is in production. The alternative that we see is to create duplicate/synched Discovery collectio...
about 4 years ago in Watson Discovery 0 Not under consideration

Creating Expansions while operation in progress returns 500 instead of 409

Follow up from #1474 which was closed without a resolution. Currently, if the user initiates a request to POST /v1/environments/${environment_id}/collections/${collection_id}/expansions while a process (such as a snapshot, etc) is running on their...
about 4 years ago in Watson Discovery 1 Not under consideration

Make "name" optional for updateConfiguration and updateCollection

The Discovery updateConfiguration and updateCollection operations currently require name to be specified in the update request. If the user doesn’t want to change the name — just some other attribute — they still have to pass the "name" (and make ...
about 4 years ago in Watson Discovery 1 Not under consideration

Discovery “getTokenizationDictionaryStatus” returns a non-standard error response for a 404 error

The “getTokenizationDictionaryStatus” operation (GET on /v1/environments/{environment_id}/collections/{collection_id}/word_lists/tokenization_dictionary) returns a "TokenDictStatusResponse" rather than a standard error response for 404 (not found)...
about 4 years ago in Watson Discovery 1 Not under consideration

Add permissions to allow a User to upgrade Discovery environment size

BMC Software has an agreement with IBM to host multiple Customers in BMC's Watson account. BMC invites a Customer's admin user(s) who have Admin permissions on the Resource group created for the Customer. A Customer can have a Watson Discovery ins...
about 4 years ago in Watson Discovery 0 Not under consideration

Need UI for collection current status and history

Currently collection don't show what task is processing and what task is finished. For example, after uploading documents, WD just show notification message. But, if the use miss that, user can not recognize whether the process is doing or not.
about 4 years ago in Watson Discovery 0 Not under consideration

Effective Rename Entity and Relations for Annotations

At the moment, when we rename the name/label of the Entity and Relation under "ASSET" column, it doesn't change existing annotations, which are still associated with the previous labels. This is problematic when we need the label to be change...
over 4 years ago in Watson Discovery 0 Not under consideration

Auto warning for unusual data trend

Auto warning or notification when system found unusual data compare to data history in certain period. It can be by color, text notification, etc. The purpose is just to notify user that there is unusual data or trend compare to certain period bac...
over 4 years ago in Watson Discovery 0 Not under consideration

Smart Document Understanding to produce a readable PDF from original scanned PDF

In solutions where text archives are digitized to become searchable in Watson Discovery, Smart Document Understanding is a promising new feature. However, it does not by side effect produce a searchable (text-based) PDF when OCRing a scanned PDF. ...
over 4 years ago in Watson Discovery 1 Planned for future release

Extract all properties from Word documents

WDS extract only few properties from a Word document, but some users more properties : example with Manager or Company or Category who are not extracted and indexed.All custom properties used as tags by users are also not extracted and not indexed...
over 4 years ago in Watson Discovery 0 Not under consideration