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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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Need to return Normalized entity values from WKS custom model

Applying annotation to documents ingested into WDS using a custom WKS model allows the client to tag content based on their own vocabulary/domain. Currently WKS model can't be configured with the normalizeEntities flag (like Alchemy used to be) an...
almost 9 years ago in Watson Discovery 0 Not under consideration

Use certified hashing function bcrypt/Argon2 in users.xml

Symphony 7.3.2 uses AES-128 encryption for the passwords storage in the local users.xml file, which is not compliant with Citi Cryptography Standard. Only below hashing algorithms are approved for passwords hashing. Citi requests IBM to use bcrypt...
about 1 year ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 7.3.2 0 Future consideration

Require to support open JAVA JDK21 and JDK25 for symphony applications

Our application CVA will face out open java lower version < 17 per company policy, and moving onto Jdk21 and Jdk25 soon.
7 months ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 7.3.2 2

An API or functionality to duplicate a discovery collection

As per the current design, Watson Discovery does not support duplication of existing collection (reference). It would be nice if we have a way to accomplish it. Please Note : User tried the option of Reuse Data from collection but that creates ano...
about 1 year ago in Watson Discovery 1 Submitted

Delete button for individual docs/results

Currently there is no simple or interactive way to delete documents within the WDS toolkit making it difficult for non-developers to manage the WDS corpus without having to use curl/sdk/api. While it is easy to upload individual documents via drag...
over 8 years ago in Watson Discovery 6 Not under consideration

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 ...
almost 4 years ago in Watson Discovery 1 Not under consideration

Support for authentication other than basic authentication on web crawlers

Watson Discovery's web crawlers implement Basic authentication support as website access authentication. Currently, there are few basic authentications for websites that are used commercially in the world, and most of them are "form authenticat...
about 5 years ago in Watson Discovery 0 Not under consideration

Add Metadata to Existing Document

This feature will save lots of computation and scripting
over 8 years ago in Watson Discovery 3 Not under consideration

Request to add AArch64/ARM64 to Spectrum Symphony version 7.3.2 or a future release.

Request to add ARM/AArch64 to Spectrum Symphony version 7.3.2 or a future release. Required for power-efficiency and cost reduction. Required to provided by EOY 2024 to Q12025. Output from /proc/cpuinfo for processor info: For processor 0 to 128 p...
over 2 years ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 7.3.2 1 Under review

Support creation of custom table labels in SDU that return content in a cell tagged with a unique row/column value

We have many use cases where customers want to be able to analyze tabular data. For example, there are many cases where a customer wants to analyze financial reports to understand how a certain company has been performing. Much of this data is pre...
over 7 years ago in Watson Discovery 1 Not under consideration