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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    Handle roles per instance

    They need admin role and read only role per Discovery instance. It is a must due to several analysts require to access data without set any configuration of the project or collection. It is a must
    almost 4 years ago in Watson Discovery 0 Not under consideration

    Remove Linux root privileges(Elevated access) for IBM Symphony /Spectrum process

    Currently IBM Symphony (including Spectrum , SMC, ) requires Linux root level access (egosetsudoers.sh) to run this product in EGO_Simplified_WEM=No This elevated access for symphony processes is flagged as security risk for all our infrastructure...
    about 8 years ago in Spectrum Symphony / Future Version 1 Not under consideration

    Include query expansions in the new WDS usage logs

    The new logs API call is very useful, however, it is missing the query expansion functionality to see what query actually got executed by WDS, instead of the NLQ coming through API. This is especially needed in client applications to understand wh...
    about 8 years ago in Watson Discovery 0 Not under consideration

    Support for complex operators such as NEAR and BETWEEN

    Our business clients currently use Watson Explorer and are able to execute queries that include NEAR and BETWEEN to find very specific documents. This functionality is not currently available in Watson Discovery and is a very big issue for our bus...
    about 4 years ago in Watson Discovery 0 Future consideration

    [RFE][BBVA] - Extract data from plc to Kafka

    Since we are having problems while PLC is not being able to write all the tasks executed in Symphony to Oracle database, we would like to have a plc connector to send all the information to a Kafka queue (or similar). Our goal is to be able to use...
    about 8 years ago in Spectrum Symphony / Product functionality 2 Not under consideration

    Hindi language support

    Hindi is the most common of the Indian languages with more than half of the 1.3 Billion using the language. There are huge numbers of Hindi news/blog/social media messages that are critical for companies operating in India to be able to analyze.
    about 8 years ago in Watson Discovery 0 Planned for future release

    support SAML for web crawler

    The option to generate documents for question answering by web crawling does not work for us as we recently disabled basic auth and now require SAML. Would be great if the web crawler feature supported SAML.
    about 4 years ago in Watson Discovery 0 Not under consideration

    Transferring ownership of Annotation Sets

    Problem When annotation sets are created by WKS and assigned to the selected (by the Project Manager) human annotators (HA), the ownership of the annotation sets cannot be changed. This means that if a HA is temporarily or permanently unavailable ...
    over 8 years ago in Watson Discovery 0 Not under consideration

    Need to go beyond Flat model for Entites and Dictioraries. Build custom Ontologies.

    Right now we have a flato model for Entities, that is, by the way, not so well paired with dictionaries. Why don't we have the possibility to design taxnomy trees, and define 'synonyms' for each node expression (this will substitute Dictoinaries)....
    over 8 years ago in Watson Discovery 0 Not under consideration

    Display document status for collection on Watson Discovery UI

    Currently there is no way to track document progress for a collection on Watson Discovery UI. Sometimes documents are stuck for hours and there is no way to figure out what is happening in the background. I think there should be a very simple and ...
    about 4 years ago in Watson Discovery 0 Future consideration

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