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IBM Data and AI Ideas Portal for Customers


This portal is to open public enhancement requests against products and services offered by the IBM Data & AI 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).


Shape the future of IBM!

We invite you to shape the future of IBM, including product roadmaps, by submitting ideas that matter to you the most. Here's how it works:


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Start by searching and reviewing ideas and requests to enhance a product or service. Take a look at ideas others have posted, and add a comment, vote, or subscribe to updates on them if they matter to you. If you can't find what you are looking for,


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Post ideas and requests to enhance a product or service. Take a look at ideas others have posted and upvote them if they matter to you,

  1. Post an idea

  2. Upvote ideas that matter most to you

  3. Get feedback from the IBM team to refine your idea


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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.

IBM Unified Ideas Portal (https://ideas.ibm.com) - Use this site to view all of your ideas, create new ideas for any IBM product, or search for ideas across all of IBM.

ideasibm@us.ibm.com - Use this email to suggest enhancements to the Ideas process or request help from IBM for submitting your Ideas.

IBM Employees should enter Ideas at https://ideas.ibm.com


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Provide the ability to encrypt all customer data with Key Protect

I work with FSS customers and they have expressed a very strong need to be able to encrypt any data that might contain confidential information with their own master encryption key. We should be able to use Key Protect to provide this encryption.
about 6 years ago in Watson Discovery 0 Delivered

WDS needs to be deployable to IBM Cloud Isolated Environments

WDS Premium is not sufficient for many customers as it only provides container based separation/isolation on shared infrastructure. As we move away from the fully dedicated "Bluemix" capability to the IBM Cloud Isolated offering where customers ca...
about 6 years ago in Watson Discovery 2 Delivered

Add an interface for adding support for other languages

Let's enable users to model their own natural language. I realize adding support for language is not easy. However, to really achieve more widespread adoption, we need support for more languages. I believe there are many IBMers like me, but also d...
over 6 years ago in Watson Discovery 1 Delivered

"Go to node" button inside the node overview

I use multiple "jumps to" in each dialog tree and in many cases it's so difficult search the node from where he jumped, it can be very useful a button in the area that is maintained to modify the node, a button that takes you directly to the locat...
over 6 years ago in watsonx Assistant 1 Delivered

Back-off to general models when using grammars

In our use of STT for Conversation Watson Assistant, we had many cases (responses expecting codes etc) where the grammar functionality would be extremely useful useful but for natural deployment a "fall back" to general recognition models would be...
over 6 years ago in Speech Services 0 Delivered

Developing new languages for Central Europe (Czech, Bulgarian, Slovakian, Magyar)

Hi, a major bank, KBC, is working across Europe and wants to deploy one AI technology across the group. They've started off with Watson Conversation service in Dutch and are very happy with the quality. Considering WDS is coming now in Dutch...
almost 7 years ago in Watson Discovery 1 Delivered

@sys-time and @sys-date with Fuzzy matching to handle typos

It would be great if @sys-date and @sys-time could support fuzzy matching in order to handle typos, particularly for the descriptive dates such as: next week (typo: nxt week) September (typo: Septembr)
almost 7 years ago in watsonx Assistant 1 Delivered

Return the start/end indexes of an entity mention in the text.

When predicting entities in a document, the NLU Service does not return any information about where the entities were found in the text. Since we use custom models with a lot of numerical entities, it becomes very hard to find the sentences where ...
about 7 years ago in Natural Language Understanding (NLU) 1 Delivered

Inbuilt capability to understand FAQ documents

Currently, FAQ documents (documents that are already structured in question and answer sections in pdf, word,) need to be pre processed into QnA json units and then imported into discovery. It would be better to have inbuilt feature to understand ...
over 7 years ago in Watson Discovery 2 Delivered