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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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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 ...
about 3 years ago in Watson Discovery 1 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 6 years ago in Watson Discovery 6 Not under consideration

Please add ability to use AVI/F5 URLs/Hostname in ego.conf file as EGO_MASTER_LIST or SMC_MASTER_CLUSTER_URL

Please add ability to use AVI/F5 URLs/Hostname in ego.conf file as EGO_MASTER_LIST or SMC_MASTER_CLUSTER_URL We want to implenet this for our new data center deployments For example: SMC_GLOBAL_PLACEMENT=enabledSMC_MASTER_CLUSTER_URL=master_list:/...
6 months ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 7.3.2 1 Submitted

Need capability to backup and restore collections across environments

#SalesForce, #ServiceNow, #Watson Teacher Advisor : In WDS, there are No backup/restore tooling for collections. This is affecting migration of collections across environments such as from dev to staging/testing and then to production. This is aff...
almost 9 years ago in Watson Discovery 1 Planned for future release

Develop a collection of REST APIs and SDKs that allow to automate IBM Watson Knowledge Studio functions

Develop functions that allow to automate IBM Watson Knowledge Studio activities in Python like: 1- Upload entities and relationships 2- Upload dicts associating it to entities 3- Upload files to be annotate 4- Run annotators, specially dictionnary...
almost 9 years ago in Watson Discovery 5 Not under consideration

egosh consumer view cli command should display reclaim grace period and "rebalance after change" values

Why is it useful ? It would be useful when you have high number of consumers using many different reclamation timeout (reclaim grace period) values and you would want to have a comparison to other cluster or just to have a data/comparison view of ...
7 months ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 7.3.2 0 Submitted

Proposal to Add Vector Search Support to Watson Discovery

Does IBM have any plans to support vector search in Watson Discovery?While we understand that watsonx Discovery and IBM Cloud’s Elasticsearch already offer vector search capabilities, Watson Discovery stands out for its excellent text search accur...
over 1 year ago in Watson Discovery 0 Submitted

Map dictionaries to subtypes and provide evaluation stats for subtypes

Currently, only being able to map dictionaries to entity types makes bootstrapping projects with subtypes very difficult. It also eliminates a major way to improve recall. Additionally, not being able to see stats at the subtype level makes it alm...
about 9 years ago in Watson Discovery 2 Planned for future release

Applying NLU enrichments on the question

Many times, customer assumes that WDS will apply enrichments to the question also and use that to help in search. This is not currently the case. WDS need to have a way where by default (or by config) NLU enrichments can be applied on the question...
about 9 years ago in Watson Discovery 1 Not under consideration

Data masking for ingested WDS documents

We have a client request to provide capability to mask sensitive data from ingested documents. This is to serve 2 purposes; i) general company wide data privacy requirements, ii) masking sensitive data from developers If a function was available t...
over 8 years ago in Watson Discovery 0 Not under consideration