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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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IBM watsonx Orchestrate

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 19 hours 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...
28 days ago in IBM watsonx Orchestrate Under review

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...
about 1 month ago in IBM watsonx Orchestrate Under review

Add native support for non–OpenAI-compliant Gemini 3.x APIs by introducing a new provider spec beyond openai-oauth2-client-creds.

Google’s newer Gemini 3.x models use updated APIs that are not OpenAI-compatible, so current integrations break and prevent customers from adopting latest model capabilities. Who would benefit: Existing WXO customers using Google Vertex AI via Api...
5 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...
3 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...
4 months ago in IBM watsonx Orchestrate Under review

Support XLSX file for TEXT&DOC EXTRACTION NODES

[Request] I would like to request wxO to support XLSX files for both FILE UPLOAD, and TEXT AND DOCUMENT EXTRACTION NODE. Currently, wxO onlly allow us to upload XLSX files via FILE UPLOAD NODE, however, the content is recognized as binary file as ...
3 months 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...
about 2 months ago in IBM watsonx Orchestrate Under review

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...
about 1 month ago in IBM watsonx Orchestrate Needs more information

NooBaa default backing store needs configurable memory via ODF addon parameters

At the moment, the NooBaa default backing store is set to 400Mi with no way to adjust the memory sizing. This needs to be adjustable.
12 days ago in IBM watsonx Orchestrate Under review