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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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Post ideas and requests to enhance a product or service. Take a look at ideas others have posted and upvote them if they matter to you,

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  2. Upvote ideas that matter most to you

  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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IBM watsonx Orchestrate

Customization of Fields Returned from the Knowledge Base

Currently, the informational agents in watsonx.orchestrate retrieve only the title and main content of chunks from the knowledge base. However, there are other pertinent information that they would like to have access to for certain use cases, suc...
9 days ago in IBM watsonx Orchestrate Submitted

feature in watsonx Orchestrate that can restrict or block model usage once a predefined token usage limit has been reached.

This feature is needed in the control plane of watsonx Orchestrate to provide centralized governance and usage management capabilities.It enables administrators to set token-based usage limits and automatically control model access when thresholds...
22 days ago in IBM watsonx Orchestrate Submitted

Runtime library UI Enhancement

Customers would like to have a category-based agent and tool catalog on Runtime library UI of watsonx Orchestrate, similar to the area highlighted in the red box in the image. They are planning to develop and deploy hundreds of agents within the y...
16 days ago in IBM watsonx Orchestrate Submitted

Limitation to user usage

The request comes from an Italian university during portal phase. The goal is to limit token consumption per student, but their main concern is being exposed to attacks from a bot. Please note that students access a portal asking about university ...
10 days ago in IBM watsonx Orchestrate Submitted

Enable a parallel text chat stream while using the voice experience, allowing users to see the conversation in real time while interacting via voice

Currently, when voice mode is enabled in watsonx Orchestrate, the user enters a voice-only interaction that behaves like a phone call with the virtual agent. During this experience, the textual conversation is not visible in real time within the c...
about 2 months ago in IBM watsonx Orchestrate Under review

Add preventive monitoring and automated maintenance for Tiny Milvus etcd backend in watsonx Orchestrate on-prem

In watsonx Orchestrate on-prem, Tiny Milvus uses a dedicated etcd backend with a fixed backend quota of around 2 GB. When this quota is reached, etcd raises a NOSPACE alarm and Milvus can no longer start correctly. In our environment, this resulte...
6 days ago in IBM watsonx Orchestrate Submitted

NVIDIA B300 GPU support on-premises

We are preparing an on-prem deployment proposal including watsonx.ai, watsonx.orchestrate (WXO), and watsonx.data for a major financial-sector customer. The customer plans to deploy their AI infrastructure on NVIDIA B300 (Blackwell Ultra) GPUs. Ho...
4 months ago in IBM watsonx Orchestrate Under review

Migrate agents from global to private workspace without generating a new ID

Client was attempting to restrict user access to global workspaces which is not currently possible. Our suggestion was that the client move some of their agents to private workspaces so that they can control who has access. However the client ment...
11 days ago in IBM watsonx Orchestrate Under review

Add Option to Preserve ReAct Reasoning ("Thought") in Context

Problem When using ReAct-style agents in multi-agent configurations, the system removes "Thought:" portions from responses before storing them in context. This causes format inconsistency and behavior instability. Current Behavior Child agents out...
about 1 month ago in IBM watsonx Orchestrate Submitted

First-class way to represent externally executed enterprise actions

Enterprise agents often should not execute directly. They should decide, then delegate execution to governed systems like BAW, Decisions, ITSM, ERP, or partner platforms. This could be enabled by supporting an delegated/no-op tool concept which th...
2 months ago in IBM watsonx Orchestrate Under review