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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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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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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 ...
over 2 years ago in Watson Discovery 0 Submitted

redirection and compatibility between 'Platform.Symphony.Soam.Net4.0_64’ and 'Platform.Symphony.Soam.Net4’ in 7.1.2 and that in 7.3

From: Dennis Xiao <dxiao@ca.ibm.com> Sent: Wednesday, June 4, 2025 4:28 PM To: Stuart, James <james.stuart@ubs.com>; Jeff Karmiol <jkarmiol@ca.ibm.com> Cc: Liao, Jiabin <jiabin.liao@ubs.com>; Qiu, David <david.qiu@ubs.co...
over 1 year ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 7.3 0 Submitted

Delete data from existing collection

Our signature client the Ministry of Defense likes to have the ability to delete all data from a collection. They are migrating from Watson Explorer Analytical Components (WEX-AC) to WD. In WEX-AC, the 'delete all data' from collection is present,...
almost 4 years ago in Watson Discovery 0 Not under consideration

IBM watsonx Discovery to accept OAuth authentication mechanism

IBM watsonx Discovery is installed on dedicated Google Cloud Platform (GCP). UPS.com search application will make an API call to IBM watsonx Discovery to retrieve search results for user queries. UPS.com search application will use bearer token au...
over 1 year ago in Watson Discovery 0 Submitted

Email Notification to users if ingestion is halted or completed

When ingesting large document collections it would be beneficial to have notifications sent out with ingestion status or issues.
almost 4 years ago in Watson Discovery 0 Not under consideration

To prevent data corruption or issues with Elastic Search, pause ingestion or stop ingestion before storage volumes / PVCs fill up and cause a crash.

Reduce support tickets, prevent future issues, and allow users to ingest data overnight without worrying about storage filling up.
almost 4 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...
over 1 year 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...
over 1 year ago in Watson Discovery 0 Submitted

Maintain Target Capacity Supportive for scheduled demand

To descrease the launching instance time, PIMCO use scheduled request for spot instance a lot. However Amazon EC2 terminates Spot Instances when they are interrupted. We request to support Maintain Target Capacity feature for spot fleet to maintai...
over 1 year ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 7.3.2 0 Submitted

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?
over 1 year ago in Watson Discovery 0 Submitted