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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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Sort and filter options in the business term related terms list

Related terms in relationship section and other related business term appear not alphabetically sorted and there is no option to sort on the flight. It will be easier to review at least if the were sorted by name.
over 2 years ago in Knowledge Catalog 1 Future consideration

allow calling original file from WD when integrating with WA

Customer wanted to call original file(e.g. pdf) from WD from WA, as they want end-user directly review full content of original file(e.g, pdf) including images by click URL in WA.
over 2 years ago in Watson Discovery 0 Submitted

Remove or Strip HTML tags during ingestion

Affects both ingestion and document conversion / segmentation. Benefits usage of the ingested content making it consumable in a more basic format. Original customer use case was to not only remove / strip HTML but also segment based on HTML head...
about 8 years ago in Watson Discovery 4 Functionality already exists

Multi-byte character support for importing governance deliverables

This may have already been posted by anyone, but I am posting this because I searched and could not find it. Regarding importing governance deliverables from csv files, when I imported a file with Japanese input, the text was garbled.So I would li...
over 2 years ago in Knowledge Catalog 2 Functionality already exists

Watson Colorblind Functionality

Currently 1 in 12 men, and 1 in 200 women have some issue with colorblindness. That is about 300 million people world-wide. If a user had a colorblind issue, Watson Discovery is unusable. I would suggest to the developers that they turn their scre...
over 5 years ago in Watson Discovery 0 Future consideration

Include asset relationships type definitions in reporting mart

Currently asset relationships types definitions are not included in the reporting mart. We are mainly interested in the custom asset relationship types created.
over 2 years ago in Knowledge Catalog 0 Not under consideration

Ability to translate document language on ingestion

This will provide the capability to select the language that the user wants in the index. Since the documents can be split/ retained as is in WDS and has the full text, there should be an out of the box integration with language translator to tran...
about 8 years ago in Watson Discovery 1 Not under consideration

AD Program call graphs for Hogan Assembler Programs

Program call graphs for Hogan Assembler Programs are not resolved correctly to show COBOL/Assembler programs being called in the call chain, they just show a pointer to PEM assembler macros. This is the case with all Hogan Assembler Programs. Per ...
over 5 years ago in watsonx Code Assistant Ideas / watsonx Code Assistant for Z 1 Planned for future release

Allow querying without expansion

Today, when expansions are defined for a collection, the expansions are always applied. However, there are some cases where one would like to submit a query without having it expanded, like a "do not expand" flag. A concrete case is the following:...
about 8 years ago in Watson Discovery 0 Not under consideration

Provide structured search support to NLU enrichments for textual data assets

Today, when a PDF or other text documents are profiled, NLU analyzes text with Keywords, Concepts and Categories. Such "enrichments" generated by NLU should be leveraged to find and select data assets. In fact it looks like having an embedded WDS ...
about 8 years ago in Knowledge Catalog 3 Not under consideration