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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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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.

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IBM watsonx Orchestrate

Enable Mermaid Diagram Rendering in Chat Interface

We request the enhancement of IBM watsonx Orchestrate (WXO) chat interface to support native rendering of Mermaid diagrams directly within chat responses. Currently, when Mermaid syntax is included in responses, it is displayed as plain text, requ...
1 day ago in IBM watsonx Orchestrate Under review

WxO needs a 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...
8 days ago in IBM watsonx Orchestrate Submitted

Implement rate limiting

wxO is used externally in B2C mode, asking for rate limiting for several aspects : - Security, to avoid a DoS attack and wxO to become less responsive,- Consumption, avoiding consuming too many token, and having a too long conversation to redirect...
10 days ago in IBM watsonx Orchestrate Under review

Enable to store user-uploaded files in customer-owned Cloud Object Storage (COS) buckets with strict logical segregation by user or tenant.

Customer requires full control over file storage to meet internal compliance and data sovereignty standards. Currently, user-uploaded files are stored in shared IBM-managed COS environments, which raises concerns around data ownership, isolation, ...
3 days ago in IBM watsonx Orchestrate Under review

Enable administrators to strictly control and allowlist which knowledge sources (e.g., vector stores, file uploads, web search, third-party connectors) agents can use for grounding.

Enterprises require the ability to tightly govern what data sources agents can access for grounding responses to ensure compliance, security, and data residency requirements. Currently, Watsonx Orchestrate allows agents to connect to various knowl...
3 days ago in IBM watsonx Orchestrate Under review

Four configuration options are missing in Audio Settings panel

The current Audio Settings in WatsonX Orchestrate lack the granularity required for production-grade voice channel deployments. During our ongoing PoC with a banking client (SIP channel), we identified four missing configuration options that are n...
22 days ago in IBM watsonx Orchestrate Under review

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...
about 2 months ago in IBM watsonx Orchestrate Under review

How to deploy WXO on edge device or an SNO with minimal hardware footprint?

We are using IBM Watsonx Orchestrate (wxo) for many defense and aerospace and industrial clients. For most of them edge solution is super important. However with current design wxo needs openshift and especially an ODF with an enormous hardware fo...
3 months ago in IBM watsonx Orchestrate Under review

watsonx Orchestrate, watsonx.ai and watsox Discovery to support vGPU running on virtualized environments on OpenShift (private hybrid cloud)

We need watsonx on prem to support vGPU on virtualized environments on OpenShift (private hybrid cloud). Customer is forced to deploy watsonx components on promise using vGPU. Passthrough is not an option (internal policy for many italian customer...
12 months ago in IBM watsonx Orchestrate Under review

Make embedded chat context variables directly available to tools

Our customer is reference customer who is implementing an agentic AI assistant for university students and staff. They intend to embed the wxo webchat on their website, which will need to capture the jwt token from the web frontend once a student/...
6 months ago in IBM watsonx Orchestrate Under review