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We need to know if the session/task is from SMC

We are working to use SMC (Symphony MultiCluster). Since there is no database schema change, we can't tell if the session/task is from SMC. We created TS019242798 and know there is global id in PERF soamdb temp file (session_history/task_attribute...
over 1 year ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 7.3.2 2 Not under consideration

Enable Watson Document Understanding capability on LinuxONE and Linux on IBM Z HW architecture on Spyre accelerator with the AI Foundation Models

Enable Watson Document Understanding capability on LinuxONE and Linux on IBM Z HW architecture on Spyre accelerator with the AI Foundation Models. Models that needs to be supported by the research team as follows.. WDU component will be included i...
9 months ago in Watson Discovery 0 Submitted

Increase collection count limit within each project in WD on prem

For our customer, they want to use project as tenant level or use project to store more different type of data. So there will be more than 5 collections needed for each project. We need a way to customize collection count limit within each project...
over 6 years ago in Watson Discovery 1 Planned for future release

Ability to split paragraphs inside a document

Several documents rely on a structure that leverages a single section for a bunch of unrelated paragraphs, we'd like to do document splitting based on paragraph marks at ingestion time. This could be accomplished by allowing other tags (not only H...
over 8 years ago in Watson Discovery 4 Not under consideration

Visual C++ 2013 EOS

TS016714232 We've noticed that Visual C++ 2013 is a built-in component in Symphony package. https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/spectrum-symphony/7.3.0?topic=configurations-software-included-spectrum-symphony This has been EOS just since April 2024. So wh...
about 2 years ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 7.3 1 Future consideration

Display facets on the initial screen

Currently, no facets are displayed on the initial screen.Facets are displayed when you perform a search.Could you please display the facets on the initial screen?
about 2 years ago in Watson Discovery 0 Submitted

select a facet and immediately change the display to the facet that is relevant to the selected information

For example, let's say a facet is the "sports.types_of_sports" field, and it offers the following options: [ ] basketball [ ] baseball [ ] football And the neighboring facet is the "sports.equipment" field, which offers the following options...
about 2 years ago in Watson Discovery 0 Submitted

Watson Discovery should parse the tables in PDF documents such that text in each cell is parsed with integrity and not get truncated when there's a line break

Clients expect PDF table parsing to work without errors that truncate text
over 3 years ago in Watson Discovery 0 Future consideration

1 Character Password

Admin password can be changed to 1 chacter password from GUi need RFE to port EGO_DISABLE_ADMIN_ACCESS parameter in PAM+default plugin
over 1 year ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 7.3.2 1 Not under consideration

Deprecated throw call

There are throw (...) in symphonyDE/DE732/7.3.2/include/soam.h. This pattern repeats on many lines. throw (...) was deprecated in c++11 and was removed in 17. Please remove the throw part. There are ways to make it compatible with all 11:3
9 months ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 7.3.2 0 Submitted