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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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Submitting workload from 7.3.2 on prem to 7.2.1 cloud cluster

Submitting workload from 7.3.2 on prem to 7.2.1 cloud cluster, just want to get an estimation of how long this could be tested... will compare with our project plan to see if it is worth the effort to do so...
almost 4 years ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 7.3.2 2 Not under consideration

Support annotation tasks for structured data in WKS to define column-to-column or column-to-Primary Key relationshios (semantic, dependency, etc. )

Watson Knowledge Studio supports annotation tasks in support of type system development for unstructured data; however, it does not currently support structured data annotation tasks. The ability to define relationships between columns would offer...
over 7 years ago in Watson Discovery 2 Not under consideration

Fuzzy phrase query

The customer requires phrase query using fuzzy character "∼". For instance, "homicides with firearms"∼1.
almost 4 years ago in Watson Discovery 0 Not under consideration

Support for Indian Languages

In India, the official/legal documents are documented in Indian languages. It will be good to support Indian languages like Hindi, Kannada, Telugu, Tamil. Also considering demand for chat bots in Indian languages is getting more attention, it will...
almost 8 years ago in Watson Discovery 0 Not under consideration

Account for slots given to an application when startup_cores_if_no_history is configured

Description: In the current implementation, startup_cores_if_no_history are provisioned for each application regardless of the slots in the grid, which can lead to overprovision. We would like to request that if the application has access to slots...
almost 4 years ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 7.2.1 0 Future consideration

Allow users to open a support ticket from tooling

One complaint I've heard from users is the ability to get help with Discovery. If users could open a ticket from tooling or even be directed to exactly where in IBM Console they go to open a ticket based on their account plan it could make for a s...
almost 8 years ago in Watson Discovery 0 Not under consideration

Not recreation WeX Facets in Discovery

Currently, the customer has more than 40 facets that using per facet multiple dictionaries or even regex rules plus dictionaries. Those scenarios are not able to be set in discovery. The customer is exporting each facet as pear file to be importe...
almost 4 years ago in Watson Discovery 0 Not under consideration

Stemming instead of lemmatization for exact match search in Spanish

Customer needs exact match search, same as WeX Content Analytics. R&D teams has given a manual workaround that has to be carried out for all projects. It solved some issues such as Spanish accents and missing characters, but there are still ...
almost 4 years ago in Watson Discovery 0 Not under consideration

Interpreting Oracle CLOB columns as CSV files

Currently crawler configuration reads CLOB columns as CVS files. The customer has the TS010224689 PMR. Support and R&D teams have given a manual workaround that has to be carried out for all projects. The customer requires a solution since a...
almost 4 years ago in Watson Discovery 0 Not under consideration

Facet hierarchies - groups

Admin cannot set facet hierarchy for all users. The current procedure is create a facet hierarchy per user, further the worse issue is that hierarchy is only kept in the browser cache.
almost 4 years ago in Watson Discovery 0 Not under consideration