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:


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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.

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    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

    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

    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

    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

    Improve Reference Citation Display in AI Assistant Responses

    Problem Currently, the system displays reference citations exactly as returned by the IBM Assistant. In several cases, the reference only shows a raw PDF link without displaying the actual document title. Although the document title is clearly ava...
    7 months ago in IBM watsonx Orchestrate 0 Under review

    /resolve - error resolution command in watsonx Code Assistant

    This type of command would give ideas where to look for when specific error message shows in our program. Error resolution command is a must because our competition (chat-gpt) has it and it has shown its usefulness as programmers are changing thei...
    almost 2 years ago in watsonx Code Assistant Ideas / watsonx Code Assistant (general) 0 Future consideration

    Offer an opt‑in premium “Robert mode” that uses higher‑capability model combinations at increased Bobcoin cost.

    Enterprise customers are willing to pay materially more for higher reasoning depth, reliability, and autonomy for complex, multi‑repo work, and a premium tier gives teams and consultancies access to stronger model mixes while maintaining cost tran...
    5 months ago in watsonx Code Assistant Ideas / watsonx Code Assistant (general) 0 Submitted

    Provide a native mode to run Bob as an HTTP server exposing RESTful APIs.

    An API‑first deployment allows Bob to be embedded into portals, internal tools, and automated systems, benefiting platform teams and partners orchestrating agent workflows at scale; this should include authenticated REST endpoints for job submissi...
    5 months ago in watsonx Code Assistant Ideas / watsonx Code Assistant (general) 0 Submitted

    Add hooks support to let customers execute custom logic at defined points in Bob’s lifecycle (pre‑run, post‑run, tool invocation, failure events).

    Hooks enable enterprise integration for logging, policy enforcement, approvals, and observability, benefiting platform, DevOps, and security teams embedding Bob into existing pipelines; Bob should expose configurable pre‑run, post‑run, tool‑call, ...
    5 months ago in watsonx Code Assistant Ideas / watsonx Code Assistant (general) 0 Submitted

    Introduce skills.md support so Bob can load persistent, user‑defined skills and behaviors from the repository.

    Skills files allow teams to codify repeatable workflows, conventions, and agent behaviors that improve consistency and productivity across large codebases, benefiting enterprise engineering teams and consultancies; Bob should automatically load sk...
    5 months ago in watsonx Code Assistant Ideas / watsonx Code Assistant (general) 0 Submitted

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