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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).


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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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  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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Watson Discovery

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Ability to copy the content of a user's collection by another user

it would be good to be able to copy the content of a user's collection by another user. Example, if I have a crawler set up to crawl some data, and I created a collection, I should be able to export that collection and share it with someone else. ...
over 6 years ago in Watson Discovery 0 Delivered

Ability for users to customize their own list of Stop Words

As per title, this is a request for users to be able to customize their own list of stopwords to add to the default stop words list. Our clients in Japan have been using customized stop words, with the stop word differing among clients, hence the ...
over 6 years ago in Watson Discovery 1 Delivered

Add Powerpoint Accepted Input File Type

No description provided
over 6 years ago in Watson Discovery 1 Delivered

Add Excel As Accepted File Format

We have a client that requested asking Natural Language queries about all their documents which include Excel and Powerpoint files.
over 6 years ago in Watson Discovery 2 Delivered

Support Queries to enable "User Interface type ahead"

Support Queries to enable "User Interface type ahead" to retrieve Types associated with matching entities
over 6 years ago in Watson Discovery 1 Delivered

end-users of API want to show highlights/passages in context

The HB team has now wanted the same feature out of Discovery twice - in one case, we went a different direction because we didn't want to give tooling magic powers, in the other case, we wrote the feature into the demo. If an internal team build...
over 6 years ago in Watson Discovery 2 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 ...
almost 7 years ago in Watson Discovery 2 Delivered

Passages and relevancy training

Passages and relevancy training are very important features of WDS to provide short and accurate answers to questions. But as relevancy training works only at document level, and the ranking of documents and passages are different, the value of th...
almost 7 years ago in Watson Discovery 1 Delivered

Usage Statistics on Individual Collections

Discovery allows me today to get usage data for an Environment, but I'm curious how much storage space each of my collections is using.
almost 7 years ago in Watson Discovery 0 Delivered

Discovery comprehensive handling of domain-specific dictionaries

Discovery is being positioned as replacement for R&R yet search (and not even WKS-based enrichment) cannot handle a comprehensive handling of domain-specific language, such as technical support. In R&R this was achieved by direct access to...
almost 7 years ago in Watson Discovery 3 Delivered