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Enable the encoding to handle text files in ShiftJIS code.

There're a lot of ShiftJIs text files stored on Windows File System which we're going to crawl, but currently there's no way to change the encoding setting in WD(on CP4D), so all of them are garbled ( by default they are read as UTF-8 text). Pleas...
about 5 years ago in Watson Discovery 0 Not under consideration

allow calling original file from WD when integrating with WA

Customer wanted to call original file(e.g. pdf) from WD from WA, as they want end-user directly review full content of original file(e.g, pdf) including images by click URL in WA.
almost 2 years ago in Watson Discovery 0 Submitted

Support for CSV Docs

CSV is a common file format for business data, it would be great if Discovery supported this format
over 8 years ago in Watson Discovery 5 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 i...
over 7 years ago in Watson Discovery 2 Delivered

Watson Discovery : Box connector should be able to crawl with Service Accounts when "App Access Only" is selected

https://cloud.ibm.com/docs/discovery-data?topic=discovery-data-connector-box-cloud&locale=en While configuring a Box connector, many customers need to select "App Access Only" for security reason. With that, currently only App Users are select...
over 2 years ago in Watson Discovery 0 Not under consideration

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.
about 8 years ago in Watson Discovery 2 Delivered

Not recreation WeX Facets in Discovery

Currently, the customer has more than 40 facets that using per facet multiple dictionaries or even regex rules plus dictionaries. Those scenarios are not able to be set in discovery. The customer is exporting each facet as pear file to be importe...
about 3 years ago in Watson Discovery 0 Not under consideration

Interpreting Oracle CLOB columns as CSV files

Currently crawler configuration reads CLOB columns as CVS files. The customer has the TS010224689 PMR. Support and R&D teams have given a manual workaround that has to be carried out for all projects. The customer requires a solution since a...
about 3 years ago in Watson Discovery 0 Not under consideration

Rating results from UI in "0-10" format rather than "relevant/not relevant"

From the UI in Watson Discovery, the page dedicated to train Watson, by adding natural language queries and rating the results, lets the user define rating votes only in the "relevant/not relevant" format (Slide1.png). However, if the Watson train...
over 3 years ago in Watson Discovery 0 Not under consideration

Add Powerpoint Accepted Input File Type

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about 8 years ago in Watson Discovery 1 Delivered