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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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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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  3. Get feedback from the IBM team to refine your idea


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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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Search results: Watson Discovery

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Support creation of custom table labels in SDU that return content in a cell tagged with a unique row/column value

We have many use cases where customers want to be able to analyze tabular data. For example, there are many cases where a customer wants to analyze financial reports to understand how a certain company has been performing. Much of this data is pre...
over 6 years ago in Watson Discovery 1 Not under consideration

Ability to do semantic search

Currently first level search in WDS is based on term overlap which can be improved with relevancy training. The term overlap can be improved with query expansion. Now for a query on "car", customer also wants to retrieve documents on "Vehicle", "M...
over 7 years ago in Watson Discovery 3 Not under consideration

Add Table Understanding as a feature for WDS on Cloud/Cloud Pak for Data

This feature, where customers will be able to get direct answers within tables, aligns with the vision of intelligent document processing and will enable them to easily extract exact answers and find hidden insights whenever their data includes lo...
almost 3 years ago in Watson Discovery 0 Not under consideration

Support annotation tasks for structured data in WKS to define column-to-column or column-to-Primary Key relationshios (semantic, dependency, etc. )

Watson Knowledge Studio supports annotation tasks in support of type system development for unstructured data; however, it does not currently support structured data annotation tasks. The ability to define relationships between columns would offer...
over 6 years ago in Watson Discovery 2 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 4 years ago in Watson Discovery 0 Not under consideration

Annotation of semantic meaning of text within tables utilizing headers for context

Annotation of semantic meaning of text within tables utilizing headers for context
about 8 years ago in Watson Discovery 1 Not under consideration