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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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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,

  1. Post an idea

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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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Add native assistant variable of last called action

Add a native Assistant variable to store the last called action in the watsonx Assistant. This variable would allow developers to easily reference the most recent action executed, simplifying debugging/logs and enhancing workflow automation. It co...
10 months ago in IBM watsonx Orchestrate 1 Not under consideration

Dayforce as an out of the box skill

Watsonx Orchestrate as platform for HR business users (AskHR). Having OTB connections with multiple HR platforms will make the creations of business flows quick and maximize on employee productivity
about 1 year ago in IBM watsonx Orchestrate 9 Not under consideration

Sharing of admin privileges for skills

Currently, only the originator of a skill can update/delete that skill. This is the case in both the catalog and in a customer's tenent. If the skill needs to be modified by someone else, that is not possible. Recommend 1. the originator has the a...
over 1 year ago in IBM watsonx Orchestrate 1 Not under consideration

Provide connector to Process Mining to analyse working patterns

With much of the actual process being decided by the WO end user, there is a need to understand what skills users use in sequence and to understand if new skills, APIs or workflows etc can be improved even further. Make it possible to pass the WO ...
about 2 years ago in IBM watsonx Orchestrate 3 Not under consideration

Personalize my skill set

I would love to be able to personalize my skill set with: A custom avatar, maybe picking from an ootb set of images, or even having the option to upload a custom image. A pronoun. My skill set feels like a 'she'/'her'. And I know skill set doesn't...
about 3 years ago in IBM watsonx Orchestrate 2 Not under consideration

AI Governance

WO/WA product adherence to controls mandated as part of AI Governance
about 1 year ago in IBM watsonx Orchestrate 3 Not under consideration

OOTB skill to execute script

Enhancement description * : OOTB skill to execute client side script other wise one has to always integrate an API (aws lambda/IBM Cloud functions etc.,) just to parse some output and it's an unnecessary API call. Solution *: OOTB skill to execute...
almost 2 years ago in IBM watsonx Orchestrate 0 Not under consideration

Extend the session timeout so Assistant can usefully support FB Messenger and other asynch channels experience.

When Watson Assistant works with Facebook Messenger the session times out after 60 minutes. 60 mins may be acceptable for a web session which is a synchronous experience . It is far too little time for an asynch messaging channel like FB Messenger...
over 3 years ago in IBM watsonx Orchestrate 6 Not under consideration

Versioning of Skills in Watson Orchestrate

Some of the actions in the assistant are skill-based, meaning they rely on skills (no matter it's a workflow or decision model etc) built in the "skill studio" of orchestrate . Every time someone publishes a new version in the skill studio in orch...
3 months ago in IBM watsonx Orchestrate 0 Not under consideration

Conflict Resolutions

Right now there is conflict resolutions functionality in watson assistant v1 but customer requires to have that same capability in watson assistant v2.
10 months ago in IBM watsonx Orchestrate 1 Not under consideration