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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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We need "Started(Service)", "Ended(Service)", "Task received by client" and "SIM PID" info in task_attributes table

I compare the difference between task.soamdb file and task_attributes table. I do notice when I do "soamview task" command, it will retrieve data from task.soamdb file. However, our users want to know "Started(Service)", "Ended(Service)", "Task re...
almost 3 years ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 7.2.0.2 4 Needs more information

Extend filters, query language, and ranker functionality to passages

Currently, filters, query language, and ranker functionality only applies to documents. I should be able to query for specific entities and filter down the results with hard filters (e.g. co-mentions and entity pairs spotted) when dealing with pas...
almost 9 years ago in Watson Discovery 0 Not under consideration

Certify for Citi - Symphony cluster configuration verification tools/features

Symphony configuration files to be audited and verified: We have a question from auditing about Symphony cluster configuration verification. The auditing is looking for any features/tools from Symphony that periodically check/verify Symphony clust...
almost 6 years ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 7.2.0.2 2 Planned for future release

Support Oracle Single Schema for multiple clusters data

In this link https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/spectrum-symphony/7.3.2?topic=database-setting-up-external-productionYou have this precondition in the 'Before you begin' section: "For data security, each cluster should have a different database schema to...
about 3 years ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 7.3.2 0 Future consideration

Self-signed certificate or no certificate for compute nodes

This is for Sym 7.3.1 or later versions. We need to have TLS enabled for all the communications in order to run Symphony in AWS securely. All the management nodes and masters will have a proper signed certificate. Communications to mgmt nodes and ...
about 3 years ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 7.3 1 Functionality already exists

[Workload Monitoring and Management] SOAM - Package - Remove obsolete/inconsistent SI packages from compute node (Epic32879)

Even if customer removed consumer, SI package corresponding to the consumer would be still remained on compute node. Symphony should be able to remove obsolete SI package from all compute nodes.There is an idea to remove obsolete packages.- Set fl...
about 12 years ago in Spectrum Symphony / Product functionality 3 Not under consideration

[Installation and Upgrade] Install - New Installation type: Management Console and Management Client

Currently, there are the following three installation types only.- Management Node- Compute Node- Client- Symphony DE But it's better to have new installation type "Management Console" or "Management Client".It contains ego/soam commands, but it d...
about 12 years ago in Spectrum Symphony / Product functionality 4 Not under consideration

WD - Support custom tokenization dictionaries

In a project of moving from WKS to WD Entity Extractor, our customer needs the support for Dictionary-based tokenization. In current use case, there are some recurring scenarios that contains dotted words, like "sentenza n. 151", D.P.R. 45/2002" A...
about 3 years ago in Watson Discovery 0 Not under consideration

Protect switching SSM log levels from INFO to ALL more and add CLI to query current log levels

Switching from SSM log level INFO to ALL has the potential to slow down the cluster signifantly. It has caused two S2 (S1 is highest) in the last 3 years. Both were due to human error due to lack of knowledge (not knowing about the impact of it, o...
about 3 years ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 7.3.2 1 Planned for future release

Access Control Levels

While building solutions for enterprise customers, I need the ability to limit certain documents or portions of documents to end-users. I would like Discovery to get the ACLs from the source document store, and apply those ACLs at search time to e...
over 9 years ago in Watson Discovery 1 Not under consideration