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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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Overlap of Left and right view of a page in SDU training

While tranining the SDU , a page is shown on left side with actual text and right side with boxes placed instead of text and coloured by appropriate fields but initially the color of text all over. In a dense document, it becomes difficult for use...
over 6 years ago in Watson Discovery 1 Functionality already exists

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.
over 6 years ago in Watson Discovery 0 Not under consideration

Fileshare

Instead of using NFS / SMB fileshare for symphony, could we have S3 storage too
over 6 years ago in Spectrum Symphony / Future Version 0 Planned for future release

Remove "obvious" deficiency in SSM scheduling when there are more than 10K open session #

When the Open Session number exceeds IBM's baseline of 10K, we can see Symphony SSM scheduling has an obvious "deficiency": Running task # starts to become much lower than the allocated slots to SSM bouncing between even 0 and very low; SSM busy o...
over 6 years ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 7.2.0.2 0 Planned for future release

More functions for REST API to meet citi's business requirement

The idea is that the REST API should have the functions to inquiry Symphony common information but it doesn't have so far. The three commands I listed are just samples. We won't be able to list all of them. Your side should know what inquiry comma...
over 6 years ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 7.2.0.2 0 Planned for future release

transfer credentials for symphony child sessions

We are currently planning to use the recursive Symphony workload API. Our use case is 3 layers of recursion where the first layer is created by end users and the subsequent 2 layers are created by our application. Currently we cannot use the recur...
over 3 years ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 7.3.2 0 Planned for future release

Watson Discovery : Box connector should be able to crawl with Service Accounts when "App Access Only" is selected

https://cloud.ibm.com/docs/discovery-data?topic=discovery-data-connector-box-cloud&locale=en While configuring a Box connector, many customers need to select "App Access Only" for security reason. With that, currently only App Users are select...
over 3 years ago in Watson Discovery 0 Not under consideration

Enable EC2 instance tags for HostFactory instances in metadata service

At present, EC2 instances provisioned via HostFactory is based on the launch template definition controlled by IBM. We have requirements to segregate HostFactory instance into multiple resource groups based on resource tagging. Custom tags created...
over 3 years ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 7.3.2 0 Future consideration

Highlights should include JSON object for Entity and relations

During Projcet Daisey development, we are experiencing very long overall query times and one of the issues is the amount of processing we have to perform on the results to be able to display evidence to the user. When a user searches in WDS for ...
almost 7 years ago in Watson Discovery 3 Not under consideration

SSM Instrumentation

As a debug mode, have a instrumentation mode that can be easily enable on configuration side. Instead of a new binaries that need to be deploy and rollback.
almost 7 years ago in Spectrum Symphony / Future Version 2 Planned for future release