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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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Ability to clone collection from one environment to another

We have some collections in Dallas and others in Tokyo to secure the redundancy. All collections must have completely the same ranking as each other. For that reason, we need to clone collections of Watson Discovery from one environment to another.
over 7 years ago in Watson Discovery 1 Not under consideration

IBM connectors for external data sources should allow customizing which content type gets crawled

IBM connectors for external data sources should allow customizing which content type gets crawled. As an example, for the IBM Watson Discovery SharePoint connector allow Customer to configure which content type gets crawled. Customer use case is t...
almost 4 years ago in Watson Discovery 1 Not under consideration

Addition to Citi Standard Password length of 12 Characters

As to the previous idea I submitted, please note the following for Citi Password standards that must be implements to Spectrum Symphony user accounts are : Must be a 12 Character password At least 12 characters in length At least 1 uppercase lette...
over 1 year ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 7.3.2 7 Future consideration

Citi has a policy of minimum password of 12 Characters

IBM Spectrum Symphony currently accepts a 1-character password, this is not to Citi Standard and does not comply to Citi Security standards. This password length needs to be implemented so the admin user and other users have a minimum password Len...
over 1 year ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 7.3.2 1 Future consideration

Provide summarisation capabilities

On knowledge management use case customers are asking for a solution that whilst retrieving pointers to relevant documents can provide a summary of the docs themselves. Customer in Banking and Insurance industries are the most interested, and in g...
almost 8 years ago in Watson Discovery 0 Not under consideration

Relevancy Training Evaluation Tooling & Metrics Dashboard

It will be good to have a capability in the tooling to do a train/test evaluation on a WDS collection and have the nDCG & recall metrics visible in the dashboard
over 8 years ago in Watson Discovery 0 Not under consideration

Allow custom IDs for documents when adding them to the discovery index

Whenever we face discovery setups with multiple stages or environments, its very hard and time consuming to manage multiple copies of the same document as discovery generates a new, different ID for each document in each collection. It would make ...
over 7 years ago in Watson Discovery 1 Functionality already exists

Delete expired pages during web crawl

When Watson Discovery Cloud recrawls a website(s) it is only able to update or bring in new content to the collections. It does not have the ability to delete any expired/removed pages from the index. Instead, either a custom solution is needed to...
over 3 years ago in Watson Discovery 0 Not under consideration

Request for Improved Orthographic Variation Handling in Japanese through Morphological Analysis in Watson Discovery

When using Watson Discovery for Japanese natural language searches, we are experiencing issues due to variations in okurigana (Japanese verb endings) and spelling differences, which prevent certain search results from appearing as expected. For ex...
almost 2 years ago in Watson Discovery 0 Submitted

Add AMI name regexe Option into Symphony HostFactory AWS template

Currently, Our AMI name alias remain constant for successive iterations such as symphony-worker-ami-<time stamp> as AMI version control. We request IBM can add option by providing AMI name instead of static imageID. Symphony HostFactory can ...
11 months ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 7.3.2 0 Submitted