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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:


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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.

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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Restrict Access to deployed agents

The IBM Cloud client believes workspaces as described in https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/watsonx/watson-orchestrate/base?topic=agents-overview-workspaces is for building stage only. In the clients' words "How I would envision it, would be to re-use th...
3 months ago in IBM watsonx Orchestrate 1 Under review

wxO on AWS supports private path using AWS PrivateLink

What is AWS PrivateLink : https://docs.aws.amazon.com/vpc/latest/privatelink/what-is-privatelink.html Problem to solve: Customers who are hosted on AWS may require private paths to connect their WxO instance on AWS to their on-premise environment ...
12 months ago in IBM watsonx Orchestrate 0

Refactoring Assistant to advise where good spots are to slice COBOL applications.

A developer could be advised by the refactoring assistant what are good points to slice a COBOL program so that they safe a lot of time in analyzing the COBOL code. This will allow the developer to increase the number of modules/programs they can ...
over 2 years ago in watsonx Code Assistant Ideas / watsonx Code Assistant for Z 1 Planned for future release

Add context window compaction to the Agent options

Create options within the agent to allow context window compaction. Current limitations in the tool mean that once the context window is full the agent will stop looking at knowledge bases and tools. This issue is made more pressing when connectin...
6 months ago in IBM watsonx Orchestrate 0 Under review

Ability to change hard-coded message when an error is seen on Watsonx Orchestrate

If Watsonx Orchestrate agents are built along a different english than english i.e. Portuguese, any errors seen are going to return a hard-coded message in English stating: I am sorry, I did not understand your question. Please try again.
3 months ago in IBM watsonx Orchestrate 1 Under review

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 ...
over 3 years ago in IBM watsonx Orchestrate 3 Not under consideration

update the table of contents for an impact analysis report on Understand for Watsonx Code Assistant for z

Hi, The impact analysis report are not easy to understand. What could be something good and helpuf is that we have directly on the table of contents the name of the program where the data is included. As you can see on the picture, you have 4 time...
10 months ago in watsonx Code Assistant Ideas / watsonx Code Assistant for Z 0 Under review

The idea is to enhance watsonx Orchestrate so it can directly connect to any external agent without requiring strict protocol compliance (like chat‑completions or A2A).

This enhancement is useful because it removes a major integration barrier between watsonx Orchestrate and external agent Most existing external agents expose REST APIs with custom request and response formats, which are not directly compatible wit...
3 months ago in IBM watsonx Orchestrate 1 Under review

Issue: keywords with hyphens getting auto-corrected

We have a case, where WxA auto-corrects hyphen words, even when auto-correction is turned off. WxA is integrated with Backend agent services, via custom extension. Business user questions in WxA, heavily includes names with hyphens like details of...
7 months ago in IBM watsonx Orchestrate 0 Under review

Allow insertion of session variables on context and/or prompt on AI Guided Actions

To enable more flexible AI-guided actions that cover a wider range of use cases, I suggest using session variables as context in the Grounding Context section and/or Prompt Instructions.
over 1 year ago in IBM watsonx Orchestrate 1 Not under consideration