Skip to Main Content
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:


Search existing ideas

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,


Post your ideas

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


Specific links you will want to bookmark for future use

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


ADD A NEW IDEA

Watson Discovery

Showing 190

Database crawler does not support multiple occurences of large object datatype columns or fields

Currently only one occurrence of the following fields can be crawled using the Watson Discovery Database crawler. We need to be able to crawl multiple occurrences - ​java.sql.Types.BINARY java.sql.Types.BLOB java.sql.Types.CLOB java.sql.Types.LONG...
almost 4 years ago in Watson Discovery 0 Not under consideration

Start and Stop WD for CP4D scripts to be added to the product

When managing Watson Discovery for Cloud Pak for Data, there are times when we need to restart the system. For example. hardware maintenance, planned outtage, disaster recovery, datacenter migration, etc. In such cases, currently, there is no offi...
almost 4 years ago in Watson Discovery 0 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...
almost 4 years ago in Watson Discovery 6 Not under consideration

JSON file of the ML annotations over the TEST set

It would be very useful to being able to download a JSON file of the annotations generated by the ML model, over the TEST set. Currently it is possible to download such JSON file with the annotations done by hand. Getting the ones of the ML over t...
about 4 years ago in Watson Discovery 0 Not under consideration

Synergy between WD and CPD

I don't know the vision to sell watson discovery alone. Currently, WEXAC and FC customers are not very attractive because WD has to buy a CPD license and probably needs more resources. I wondered if I could somehow propose with synergies in other...
about 4 years ago in Watson Discovery 0 Not under consideration

Increase document size limit for WD

Currently maximum document size, which can be processed by WD for CP4D is 32Mb. It is very small size limit considering any document which may have embedded images can be much larger. Even WEX limits were higher (up to 128Mb for WEX AC). Please co...
about 4 years ago in Watson Discovery 2 Not under consideration

Support WKS subtypes

When uploading a trained WKS model as machine learning enrichment, only entities are detected and indexed, but not subtypes (on WD for CP4D). Please also consider supporting subtypes in the planned real-time NLP feature.
about 4 years ago in Watson Discovery 2 Not under consideration

Need the custom crawler sample with Python

Currently the custom crawler sample code is Java only. My customer is requesting the Python one for their ease of use and productivity.
about 4 years ago in Watson Discovery 1 Not under consideration

Multiple rankers per collection

Are there any plans to suppport more than one ranker for a given Discovery collection. This would help us train and test a "ranker B" while "ranker A" is in production. The alternative that we see is to create duplicate/synched Discovery collectio...
about 4 years ago in Watson Discovery 0 Not under consideration

Creating Expansions while operation in progress returns 500 instead of 409

Follow up from #1474 which was closed without a resolution. Currently, if the user initiates a request to POST /v1/environments/${environment_id}/collections/${collection_id}/expansions while a process (such as a snapshot, etc) is running on their...
about 4 years ago in Watson Discovery 1 Not under consideration