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IBM Data and AI Ideas Portal for Customers


This portal is to open public enhancement requests against products and services offered by the IBM Data & AI 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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We invite you to shape the future of IBM, including product roadmaps, by submitting ideas that matter to you the most. Here's how it works:


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Start by searching and reviewing ideas and requests to enhance a product or service. Take a look at ideas others have posted, and add a comment, vote, or subscribe to updates on them if they matter to you. If you can't find what you are looking for,


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Welcome to the IBM Ideas Portal (https://www.ibm.com/ideas) - Use this site to find out additional information and details about the IBM Ideas process and statuses.

IBM Unified Ideas Portal (https://ideas.ibm.com) - Use this site to view all of your ideas, create new ideas for any IBM product, or search for ideas across all of IBM.

ideasibm@us.ibm.com - Use this email to suggest enhancements to the Ideas process or request help from IBM for submitting your Ideas.

IBM Employees should enter Ideas at https://ideas.ibm.com


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Watson Discovery

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Document splitting based on machine learning

Currently in order to split documents we need to painstakingly identify fonts that might be used as headings across all the different documents that we are ingesting. If the documents have a large variety of fonts and formatting this job becomes v...
about 6 years ago in Watson Discovery 1 Delivered

Support for CSV Docs

CSV is a common file format for business data, it would be great if Discovery supported this format
almost 7 years ago in Watson Discovery 5 Delivered

Ability to connect to specific Box folders without root folder permissions

When WDS connects to Box, it tries to list all objects from root folder. For this full permission to be given to crawl root box folder. This is not practical for enterprise Box customers. For example, we can not get root crawl permission for IBM b...
over 5 years ago in Watson Discovery 2 Delivered

Database crawler does not have an option to narrow down the content/query to crawl.

The Database crawler in CP4D discovery service does not have an option to narrow down the content to crawl. We need an option to run a query from the crawler like FC. Please add this option. Tracked as part of https://bigblue.aha.io/features/WDS-1239
almost 4 years ago in Watson Discovery 1 Delivered

Maintain original File within WDS

I have been working on few projects where the client has PDF documents. This happens to be the case with my current client. I have to ingest those PDF documents to WDS and keep the original in some file store for displaying it when the document ...
almost 6 years ago in Watson Discovery 2 Delivered

Retain structure of the table data also retain images

Currently while ingesting corpus to WDS, it loses the structure of any tabular data and ingests them as plain text data, which is not very readable to end users. Can the tabular structure be retained? Can there be any property or setting introduce...
over 6 years ago in Watson Discovery 1 Delivered

Add Excel As Accepted File Format

We have a client that requested asking Natural Language queries about all their documents which include Excel and Powerpoint files.
over 6 years ago in Watson Discovery 2 Delivered

Support Queries to enable "User Interface type ahead"

Support Queries to enable "User Interface type ahead" to retrieve Types associated with matching entities
over 6 years ago in Watson Discovery 1 Delivered

Stopword customization

I would like to be able to customize the stopword list in Discovery. I have some words, such as "of" which is included as part of other words in my synonym list. However, the word "of" is on the stopword list. Apparently the stopword list takes pr...
over 2 years ago in Watson Discovery 0 Delivered

Make ingestion independent from document order

Currently, the data type of the indexed fields is determined when the first document is uploaded (or when the indexed field appears for the first time). If the data type is not unique in the first document, the full document is not indexed and thu...
almost 6 years ago in Watson Discovery 1 Delivered