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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.

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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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

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

Z Understand to process PL/I modules even if there is any missing include

We are using Z Understand 3.0.0 from Bob Premium Package for Z, and we have PL/I application code. When we load the PLI code to the Z Understand and we perform a Build, it executes a PLI precompiler/scanner, and after the build has completed, we f...

Knowledge has connectors to Google Drive

Give agent access to her enterprise knowledge while leaving her content in place.
2 months ago in IBM watsonx Orchestrate 1 Future 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

Alternative Licensing Models for Anonymous Users and Automated Workloads

The current per-user (MAU) option (with the 50-message cap) is great and handles a lot of standard scenarios well. However, we run into roadblocks with use cases where the end-user is anonymous, impossible to identify, or when the "client" calling...
2 months ago in IBM watsonx Orchestrate 0 Under review

Take user session info from Teams activity objects, to enable usage of user session tokens for permissions

I understand from the documentation that Member credentials are not supported on downstream channels, such as MS Teams which are we are interested in using. When a user accesses an agent via Teams, there is no capability to sign in via the OAuth c...
2 months ago in IBM watsonx Orchestrate 0 Under review

Option to use symmetric encryption of SSO token

At times, our SSO token can be too large for IBM provided public key to encrypt, which practically makes it impossible to use this feature of sending the user_payload in the ClientJWT. Please consider revising the encryption requirement - options ...
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