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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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Standard WDS crawler for websites

The standard WDS crawler supports filesystem, sharepoint and databases. Since one of the few document types that WDS can ingest is HTML, it would make sense to have the standard crawler also support HTTP and HTTPS accessible websites. https://bigb...
over 8 years ago in Watson Discovery 1 Functionality already exists

Make the annotation tool in Watson Discovery colorblind safe

During a recent Client Enablement Workshop, we presented an overview of Watson Discovery and followed it with a hands-on session. This allowed participants to explore the product through guided exercises. However, we encountered an important acces...
over 1 year ago in Watson Discovery 0 Submitted

Service for Users to Create Japanese Morpheme Dictionary/Japanese Stop-words Dictionary for Every Account at Any Time.

Japanese morphological analysis seems very difficult because we write the document in Japanese without spaces(e.g. 私の友達は食べることが大好きです。).That’s why my idea is to create Japanese morpheme dictionary/Japanese stop-words dictionary for every account at ...
over 8 years ago in Watson Discovery 0 Not under consideration

Extend document removal API to work with removal queries

There have been several issues discovered when working with discovery and very dynamic date / agile prototyping. It is not possible (currently) to remove multiple documents, just 1 at a time. Often in the beginning of a project the data is ingeste...
almost 9 years ago in Watson Discovery 0 Not under consideration

API to inspect collection status in detail.

The WD for CP4D has API v2 which does not have listing collection details. Sometimes collection stops processing documents and not sure what is the collection status for trouble shooting.
almost 6 years ago in Watson Discovery 0 Not under consideration

Discovery highlight feature should exclude text inside image / anchor tags in html

Discovery highlight feature should exclude text inside image / anchor tags in html Currently it searches entire html for highlight feature an inserts <em> </em> tags inside img tags or anchor tags also which then cause issues when the ...
about 6 years ago in Watson Discovery 0 Not under consideration

Improve visualization of Entity Roles, Entity Subtypes, Mention Types, and Mention Classes

When annotating a role or subtype, there is no visual cue for the Entity Role, the Entity SubType, the Mention Type, or the Mention Class. There could perhaps be colored icons appearing below the annotation to display this
about 9 years ago in Watson Discovery 0 Not under consideration

Provide a Watson Discovery API that can do search across multiple Projects and score results

Provide a Watson Discovery API that can do search across multiple Projects and score results. We can support querying across Projects by querying individual Projects in parallel and aggregating the results. However aggregating results from indepen...
about 3 years ago in Watson Discovery 0 Not under consideration

Handle rating scale conversions between Documents rated using API and documents rated using Static relevancy training

Handle rating scale conversions between Documents rated using API and documents rated using Static relevancy training. We are an OEM partner of IBM and have built a Chatbot integration with Watson Discovery search. The end Users of Chatbot rate in...
about 6 years ago in Watson Discovery 0 Not under consideration

View Synonym and Stopword Files in Discovery v2

We should be able to see the filename for Stopwords and Synonyms, when it was uploaded, and by whom. We should be able to view the stopword or synonym file before blindly deleting it. We should also be able to save/download the file.
about 3 years ago in Watson Discovery 0 Not under consideration