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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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request the nested fields will be available also in the Content Mining UI as well.

Our client are using the Box crawler in the Watson Discovery. This crawler is crawling data from the Box, however when analyzing documents in the Content Mining UI, it is unable to use facets which comes from metadata such as the author, folder na...
almost 5 years ago in Watson Discovery 0 Future consideration

Allow advanced graph filtering

- Allow multi selection in the graph inventory to hide programs / tables / ...- Allow filtering arrows by direction
over 9 years ago in watsonx Code Assistant Ideas / watsonx Code Assistant for Z 3 Not under consideration

WKC - Governance Artifact import option needed

when importing governance artifacts into WKC v3.5x using a csv file import, the second window asks for the "merge option" and provides 3 options to select from - Replace all values; Replace only defined values; and Replace only empty values. It wo...
almost 5 years ago in Knowledge Catalog 3 Functionality already exists

Don't kick off full recrawl if only the crawl schedule is changed on processing settings

Currently (WD 2.2.1 on CP4D) if you make any changes on the Processing Settings tab it kicks off a full recrawl, even if the changes would not have any material effect on the processed documents. For example, if only the crawl schedule is changed ...
almost 5 years ago in Watson Discovery 1 Not under consideration

Document conversion should retain the original order of the document

Currently Discovery pulls tables, headings, footers and other Smart Document Understanding elements into their own array. This disrupts the flow of the original document, for instance the subheading is separated from the paragraph that immediately...
almost 5 years ago in Watson Discovery 0 Not under consideration

Slide decks need to retain slide structure in text content

In document conversion stage it appears that page breaks are not retained in text extracted from Powerpoint slide decks. Unlike word documents which are ususally a continuous flow of text structured by headings, slide decks are strucutred by each ...
almost 5 years ago in Watson Discovery 0 Future consideration

WKC search engine enhacements (including API) for it to be more Google-like

After implementing the WKC in CP4D we've found out that business users don't quite like the search in the UI. They said that they expected some sort of Google-like solution. As we're in Russia, users expected an automatic transliteration (the sear...
almost 5 years ago in Knowledge Catalog 0 Not under consideration

Avoid WKC quality project blank due to some certificate expiry

Asset list in WKC quality project gone/blank suddenly someday. Feel like whole system done. Customer been told the reason is : some certificate will be expired unpredicted someday between 10-13 months, not sure which day. Could we give enough time...
almost 5 years ago in Knowledge Catalog 2 Not under consideration

WKC in CP4D Search Enhacement

After implementing the WKC in CP4D we've found out that business users don't quite like the search in the UI. They said that they expected some sort a Google-like solution. As we're in Russia, users expected an automatic transliteration (the searc...
almost 5 years ago in Knowledge Catalog 0 Not under consideration

Official CP4D(WKC) Sizing guideline is desired

Official CP4D(WKC) Sizing guideline is desired . Here’s the reasons: 1)Customer encountered performance issue months ago when running auto data-discovery with big tables in WKC. We had ever suggested customer to increase cpu and memory after runni...
almost 5 years ago in Knowledge Catalog 1 Functionality already exists