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Watson Discovery

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IBM to enhance the Filters for Sharepoint connector so that besides specifying which file extensions to crawl (viz. .aspx pages) one should be able to specify exclude ListItemCollection pages

This enhancement will allow more fine grained control over which items to crwal using Watson Discovery v2 Sharepoint connector. For one use case, there are 11362 ListItemCollection type .aspx pages and 1000 real .aspcx pages. Currently Sharepoint ...
over 2 years ago in Watson Discovery 1 Not under consideration

API to import SDU Model to a collection

Currently i can create configurations, create collection and add the config to the collection, update stop words , the only thing I cannot do is import the SDU model. This functionality is requested by few clients as they manage the initial creati...
almost 5 years ago in Watson Discovery 0 Not under consideration

WD needs to surface the details of the crawl results like the number of records added / updated / deleted

WD needs to surface the details of the crawl results like the number of records added / updated / deleted OR ... any visual indicator of if a record in WD has been updated, for eg: may be additional field in the WD index showing the update timesta...
10 months ago in Watson Discovery 6 Under review

Start and Stop WD for CP4D scripts to be added to the product

When managing Watson Discovery for Cloud Pak for Data, there are times when we need to restart the system. For example. hardware maintenance, planned outtage, disaster recovery, datacenter migration, etc. In such cases, currently, there is no offi...
over 5 years ago in Watson Discovery 0 Not under consideration

Display facets on the initial screen

Currently, no facets are displayed on the initial screen.Facets are displayed when you perform a search.Could you please display the facets on the initial screen?
over 1 year ago in Watson Discovery 0 Submitted

select a facet and immediately change the display to the facet that is relevant to the selected information

For example, let's say a facet is the "sports.types_of_sports" field, and it offers the following options: [ ] basketball [ ] baseball [ ] football And the neighboring facet is the "sports.equipment" field, which offers the following options...
over 1 year ago in Watson Discovery 0 Submitted

Allow user defined dictionary for Kuromoji tokenization use under Japanese

Requesting to allow users to define their list of user_dictionary words for the purpose of Kuromoji’s tokenizer. I understand that WDS uses Kuromoji underneath for Japanese language. A key function of Kuromoji as the morphological analyzer for Jap...
about 8 years ago in Watson Discovery 0 Not under consideration

Project Level Security Needed

We are using Watson Discovery v2.1.2 in CP4D and we see that a user added under “Manage users” for a WD instance with role “Admin” or “User” is able to not only access all project created by other users, but is also able to delete them. Our securi...
over 5 years ago in Watson Discovery 6 Not under consideration

Request for Improved Orthographic Variation Handling in Japanese through Morphological Analysis in Watson Discovery

When using Watson Discovery for Japanese natural language searches, we are experiencing issues due to variations in okurigana (Japanese verb endings) and spelling differences, which prevent certain search results from appearing as expected. For ex...
12 months ago in Watson Discovery 0 Submitted

Watson Discovery query need support for Field relevany boosting / Field relevancy weighing

BMC Customer's are requesting that Watson Discovery query should allow specifyingfield relevancy boosting / field relevancy weighing when searching documents - typically for gettingmatching passages. In the absence of this Feature, BMC Customer's ...
about 3 years ago in Watson Discovery 1 Not under consideration