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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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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:


Search existing ideas

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,


Post your ideas

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

  2. Upvote ideas that matter most to you

  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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Ability to delete connections

With 30-june-2025 release users are able to view, add, filter and edit connections but cannot DELETE it. Today, many users end up creating connections by mistake, which generates a huge list of connections, making it difficult to locate the correc...
about 1 year ago in IBM watsonx Orchestrate 1 Future consideration

Enable Agent-Level Security Configuration for Embedded Chat in Watson Orchestrate

Tenant-Level Security Scope in Watson Orchestrate Embedded Chat
10 months ago in IBM watsonx Orchestrate 5 Under review

Update Control Mechanism for Large-Scale Environments

In large environments where multiple updates and implementations are occurring simultaneously, there is a need for an update control mechanism. For instance, consider an environment with several watsonx assistants, referred to as “sandboxes,” wher...
over 1 year ago in IBM watsonx Orchestrate 0 Not under consideration

Support markdown files in pre-built knowledge bases

When working with pre-built knowledge bases (often used for quick demos) in orchestrate, files processed with Docling for RAG pipeliens for agents are stored in .md format, which is widely accepted by models. Yet the current ADK version does not i...
2 months ago in IBM watsonx Orchestrate 0 Under review

Display Action Status on Folders in watsonx Assistant

In watsonx Assistant, each action has a status, and if it is red, it indicates an error. However, when the action is inside a folder, you need to access the folder to check the status. The suggested improvement is to display the status directly on...
over 1 year ago in IBM watsonx Orchestrate 1 Not under consideration

AI-powered ROI and Automation Success Dashboard in IBM watsonx Orchestrate

As enterprise adoption of AI-powered automation continues to grow, organizations need better visibility into the business value generated by their automation initiatives—not just workflow execution metrics. I propose adding an AI-Powered ROI and A...
2 months ago in IBM watsonx Orchestrate 0 Under review

Hide user input option in sub action in assistant steps

I am building an AI assistant and in that I am using many skill based actions in different steps appropriately as sub-actions. I am able to pass my variables to these skill based actions and receiving the response which I am using in further steps...
almost 2 years ago in IBM watsonx Orchestrate 1 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 2 years ago in IBM watsonx Orchestrate 2 Not under consideration

Creating and Assign Values to Custom Context Variables in Agents

Currently we have the functionality to use context variables while creating Agents. How can we create our own custom context variables and set their values? For ex: var name : Environment & var value : Dev/Test/Production
about 1 year ago in IBM watsonx Orchestrate 0 Future consideration

HEIC/HEIF Support for Document Processing

Enhance the Document Processing tool to include native support for HEIC and HEIF image formats. This enhancement would allow the system to ingest and perform Optical Character Recognition (OCR) on high-efficiency files typically generated by iOS d...
9 months ago in IBM watsonx Orchestrate 2