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Watson Discovery

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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 ...
over 2 years ago in Watson Discovery 0 Future consideration

Application registration or service principal

While connecting/setting up data sources for Watson Discovery, currently the only option is to include userid/credentials - this is not suitable in enterprise solutions (like our case) where we have multi-factor authentication enabled for userids....
over 2 years ago in Watson Discovery 0 Not under consideration

Enable SAML based authentication for Watson Discovery Web Crawler

Hi - We would like to have IBM enable SAML based authentication for the Watson Discovery web crawler. Most of the web pages we'd like to crawl here at CVS are protected by SAML authentication... however, Watson Discovery does not support SAML auth...
almost 3 years ago in Watson Discovery 0 Future consideration

Include multiplier operator on filter

The multiplier operator only works on the query paramter. -https://cloud.ibm.com/docs/discovery?topic=discovery-query-operators#multiplier It would be useful if it could be used on the filter paramter or at least specify in the documentation that ...
about 3 years ago in Watson Discovery 3 Functionality already exists

Watson WKS multiple document error display

Would it be possible to have Watson WKS display all documents that werent able to be read rather than having to load the same document set multiple times just to find all the documents that are corrupt/ troublesome? The WKS document loading functi...
over 3 years ago in Watson Discovery 0 Not under consideration

API manager Rest API to Capture API metrics at Space level

Regarding obtaining data at catalog we have rest API to get the metrics.I checked the result of the REST API and realised that it does not contain in which space the product / API belongs to, our ultimate goal is to get the analytics data for the ...
over 3 years ago in Watson Discovery 1 Not under consideration

Enable multiple language collections

We have many customers in Europe who have content in multiple languages. In WEX AC and oneWEX this was not a problem as the first step in the WEX analysis pipeline is to determine the main langaueg for a document and then apply the relevant out of...
over 3 years ago in Watson Discovery 0 Not under consideration

Defect in parsing of webhose news site scraping

webhose provides articles scraped from news sites and the parsing of these sites is used for Watson NLU enrichments Some urls contain additional articles that are extraneous to the main article. The parser includes this extraneous text as part of ...
over 3 years ago in Watson Discovery 1 Not under consideration

Database crawler does not support multiple occurences of large object datatype columns or fields

Currently only one occurrence of the following fields can be crawled using the Watson Discovery Database crawler. We need to be able to crawl multiple occurrences - ​java.sql.Types.BINARY java.sql.Types.BLOB java.sql.Types.CLOB java.sql.Types.LONG...
almost 4 years ago in Watson Discovery 0 Not under consideration

Watson Discovery Collection as Data Source Assets

Watson Discovery stuff should be added to be as supported in WKC. ie Collections as Data Assets , and ML models/pears etc.. as Language Models etc..
almost 4 years ago in Watson Discovery 0 Planned for future release