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IBM Data and AI Ideas Portal for Customers


This portal is to open public enhancement requests against products and services offered by the IBM Data & AI 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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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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Ability to pass input parameters and retrieve output results from Skill Based Actions called from within Assistant Builder

Skill Based Actions can currently only be used for atomic self contained skill executions from an assistant built in the assistant builder and hosted externally to the Orchestrate UI. The inability to pass parameters and retrieve Skill results is ...
6 months ago in IBM watsonx Orchestrate 0 Delivered

Configuring secure tunnel for Watson Orchestrate tenants hosted on IBM Cloud

The option to configure secure tunnel in currently only available for tenants hosted on AWS and not on IBM Cloud. We need this feature in order to integrate with an on-prem system like AD https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/watsonx/watson-orchestrate/curr...
6 months ago in IBM watsonx Orchestrate 0 Delivered

Request for implementation of watsonx Orchestrate's IP filtering function

Orchestrate is an important service in promoting automation in the enterprise. However, watsonx Orchestrate on IBM Cloud does not support Ip filtering, so its security features are insufficient for enterprise use. I urgently need you to support Ip...
7 months ago in IBM watsonx Orchestrate 1 Delivered

How to change the date format of a field to any custom date format. The default date format is yyyy-MM-dd

The users might be working from different regions each with different timezones and they way a user would have the date time recorded in the source system is different. This will make it flexible for the user to add a date to a field in their pref...
8 months ago in IBM watsonx Orchestrate 1 Delivered

Customize the default table size beyond the current limit of 5

The current table display size is set to 5 rows by default. Users requires more entries in a table to reduce the amount of work an end user needs to perform when using skills that retrieve resumes (for example). Their users use laptops, so screen ...
9 months ago in IBM watsonx Orchestrate 0 Delivered

Support all tool interactions in 3rd-party channels

Third party channels do not support form interactions and most pre-built skills tools + all skill flows/workflows are form-based today.
9 months ago in IBM watsonx Orchestrate 1 Delivered

Support SOAP requests

Expand the custom skill compatibilty to SOAP protocal in addition to OpenAPI to support a broader set of apps & use-cases.
10 months ago in IBM watsonx Orchestrate 0 Delivered

Base LLM configuration to disable General Purpose answering

The new Unified Chat default experience includes a Base LLM which provides both description based routing as well as General purpose answering.The Client has asked for a feature to disable the General Purpose answering, so that the Base LLM is onl...
10 months ago in IBM watsonx Orchestrate 0 Delivered

Jump to Sub-Action and close current Action / Follow on Actions for End of Conversation

The current End of a Conversation flow is robotic and does not give the end user a satisfactory experience at the end of their journey. The flow needs to be customizable so that it is consistent, and can gather feedback, start another journey, or ...
about 1 year ago in IBM watsonx Orchestrate 2 Delivered

Call Generative AI from a watsonx Orchestrate Automation Workflow

Currently, it is possible to call a decision component or another workflow component from a wxO workflow. However, it is not possible to call a generative AI component from a workflow. We would like to be able to: prepare multiple email templates ...
about 1 year ago in IBM watsonx Orchestrate 2 Delivered