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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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Support End-User Identity Propagation for Downstream Authorization and Auditing in Integrations Using CPI middleware

Watsonx Orchestrate currently supports Team and Member credential models for authenticating tools and connectors. When a watsonx Orchestrate agent invokes a custom tool or prebuilt SAP connector and the request is routed through SAP CPI (SAP Integ...
about 1 month ago in IBM watsonx Orchestrate 1 Submitted

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...
almost 2 years ago in IBM watsonx Orchestrate 1 Not under consideration

Identifying Real Users When Using a Service Account API Key

Currently, when using a service account API key, all threads are created under the "service account user," which prevents distinguishing the actual end user who initiated each thread. We propose adding support for passing user identification metad...
11 months ago in IBM watsonx Orchestrate 0 Under review

Table-level error handling for batch load operations for IBM Data Gate for watsonx

Today, when executing batch load operations across multiple tables, if a single table encounters an error or limitation, IBM Data Gate for watsonx fails the entire batch silently, without generating errors or events. This results in: No tables bei...
9 months ago in Db2 for z/OS Data Gate 0 Submitted

Actionable error handling and troubleshooting guidance for known limitations for IBM Data Gate for watsonx

When synchronization errors occur due to known limitations (e.g., FIELDPROC, RRF, or other restrictions), IBM Data Gate for watsonx currently exposes generic error messages that complicate troubleshooting. In some cases, lack of proper handling ha...
9 months ago in Db2 for z/OS Data Gate 0 Submitted

Connecting to multiple SAP S/4HANA instances in the same tenant

Customer has different SAP business services that are each fronted by separate CPI iFlow endpoints, each with its own distinct Server URL. However, the prebuilt SAP S4 HANA agent/toolset in watsonx Orchestrate has every tool bound to a single shar...
2 months ago in IBM watsonx Orchestrate 0 Under review

Be able to select which step of subaction when "Go to subaction"

Adding a feature that allows users to choose the specific step within a sub action when forward to it. ' Currently, watsonx Assistant only permits going to the beginning of a sub action, which can be inefficient for complex workflows. This enhance...
almost 2 years ago in IBM watsonx Orchestrate 1 Not under consideration

Granular and actionable error logs & chat messages

We encountered a scenario where a user had configured the Agent to connect to a tool that triggered a Python script. While the Agent was connected, it suddenly stopped responding and displayed the following error message: "I'm sorry, it seems I've...
about 1 year ago in IBM watsonx Orchestrate 1 Future consideration

FileNet Agent to query documents

FileNet Agent would help many customers to interact with FileNet and ability to query on the document, summarize the document or get the data based on the document type and integrate with downstream 3rd party servers to simplify or to automate the...
over 1 year ago in IBM watsonx Orchestrate 3 Future consideration

Increase maximum number of live toolkits allowed

See TS022572357 (https://www.ibm.com/mysupport/s/case/500gJ00000E6TaLQAV/can-max-live-toolkits-available-be-increased-from-5-to-15-in-our-tenant?language=en_US) for the original ticket about this. We currently have 12 sub-agents, and each has mult...
2 months ago in IBM watsonx Orchestrate 0 Under review