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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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Private context variables

Watsonx Orchestrate (wxO) Agentic currently supports context variables for collecting and passing information between agents and tools. The content of the context variables will show up in the trace lots. That is not accepable for some of the cont...
about 2 hours ago in IBM watsonx Orchestrate 0 Future consideration

Securely passing context from my web application to Agent

Watsonx Orchestrate (wxO) Agentic currently has a single select feature, however, the usability of the selection list diminishes as the list grows in length. Some customers are dealing with lists that are hundreds or thousands of items long, so a ...
about 2 hours ago in IBM watsonx Orchestrate 0 Future consideration

Ability to use SystemModstamp as an Offset in Salesforce Bulk API 2.0 Origin with PK Chunking

Please support using systemModstamp as an offset in the Salesforce Bulk API 2.0 origin to be used with PK chunking.
about 2 hours ago in StreamSets 0 Submitted

VSAM insight AI agent on IBM Z

At Fall 2025 AI Council, Mandeep Kapoor from Citibank expressed interest in a VSAM agent (similar to Db2 Agent that is in-plan) for watsonx assistant for Z. Client indicated that VSAM databases on IBM Z holds critical business data, yet extracting...
about 5 hours ago in watsonx Assistant 0 Submitted

AI Agent for Stress test on IBM Z

At Fall 2025 AI Council, multiple clients indicated that an AI agent for Stress test on Z will be vital to their organization. Donna Dillenberger had indicated that IBM Research is playing with this item, so this requirement should be directed to ...
about 6 hours ago in watsonx Code Assistant Ideas / watsonx Code Assistant for Z 0 Submitted

Need XGBOOST to support 3.1.2 version

Currently watsonx only supports 2.0 and 2.1 version,
about 9 hours ago in watsonx.ai 0 Submitted

Human readable reasoning trace in the chat

Reasoning trace helps the end-user discover the thinking steps and agent took to answer a prompt. But, there are downsides to the current implementation: End user is shown a technical JSON file that's low on readability The reasoning trace is ...
about 10 hours ago in IBM watsonx Orchestrate 0 Future consideration

Enhance the capability to connect to Azure KeyVault and get private keys for snowflake authentication

This request is from Blue Yonder Pvt Ltd. (Formally JDA SOFTWARE GROUP_INC) As Snowflake is officially deprecating username and password authentication (https://docs.snowflake.com/en/user-guide/security-mfa-rollout#deprecation-timeline) , we have ...
about 14 hours ago in Cognos Analytics / Data Access and Modelling 0 Submitted

The ability to specify RBAC for API credentials and to restrict creation of API credentials

As an admin maintaining StreamSets, I don't want end users to create token on their own without the consent from the admin team. The entire control of creating, managing, deleting the API key should ideally be with the admin team. Here, the requir...
about 15 hours ago in StreamSets 0 Submitted

Increase Limit for processing LOB values

We want to use the new OAM S3 interface. But we are hitting the limit of 50GB for processing LOB values.This results in errors with Resource unavailable and REASON 00C900D2.Before V12 there were two zParms LOBVALA and LOBVALS which could be set to...
about 15 hours ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Under review