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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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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    Add a BobShell configuration option to explicitly disable built‑in tools (e.g., read_file, write_file) at runtime, similar to --disabled-tools flags offered by other agentic coding assistants.

    Enterprise customers need deterministic and policy‑compliant agent behavior, and the ability to disable specific built‑in tools allows security, platform, and compliance teams to constrain Bob’s capabilities in regulated, air‑gapped, or controlled...
    5 months ago in watsonx Code Assistant Ideas / watsonx Code Assistant (general) 0 Submitted

    Enable parameter configuration for Azure AI custom LLMs

    We are using Azure AI’s GPT-5 as the LLM for our agents. Azure AI models provide configurable parameters such as "reasoning_effort" and "verbosity", but these options cannot currently be set within Watsonx Orchestrate. We would like Watsonx Orches...
    10 months ago in IBM watsonx Orchestrate 2 Needs more information

    Notebook functionality within Orchestrate UI

    Inspired by the release of Open Notebook, similar functionality within the Orchestrate environment would be powerful, especially if it can connect to WatsonX.ai-hosted models, and/or use the Orchestrate AI Gateway. The idea would be to create a pr...
    10 months ago in IBM watsonx Orchestrate 1 Not under consideration

    Mapping wxO groups to groups in OKTA SSO

    We are planning to have three groups(Admin, Builder and User) in our OKTA SSO. We need the capability in Watsonx Orchestrate to read the Groups of the user in SAML, and provide the respective access in WatsonX platform. Example: If a user belongs ...
    about 1 year ago in IBM watsonx Orchestrate 0 Planned for future release

    Enable support for multiple authentication types in a tool

    I would like to configure multiple authentication types for a tool using a logical AND condition.In the OpenAPI specification, it is possible to define multiple authentication types as shown below: security: # A AND B - A B
    11 months ago in IBM watsonx Orchestrate 0 Under review

    Two buttons, "Design" and "Implement," on the chatbot to finalize the proper design with promt context before proceeding with implementation.

    Currently, the chatbot has a single "GO" button to send prompts and receive results. When users request prompts like generating a complete project, the process combines both design and code implementation. Users refine the prompt iteratively to ac...
    over 1 year ago in watsonx Code Assistant Ideas / watsonx Code Assistant for Enterprise Java 0 Future consideration

    Prevent agent malfunctions caused by watsonx Orchestrate updates

    We have experienced cases where agents stopped functioning properly after a watsonx Orchestrate product update, even though no changes were made to their “behavior” configuration in the Agent Builder. By adjusting the “behavior” settings, we were ...
    11 months ago in IBM watsonx Orchestrate 0 Under review

    Toggle to continue showing feedback in chat after user submits it

    There is no toggle to allow additional feedback that a user has provided to continue showing in chat after the user submits it. Therefore, there's no way for a user to scroll back up in the chat to see the feedback that they had provided. This wou...
    6 months ago in IBM watsonx Orchestrate 1 Future consideration

    Optional starter prompts that can be enable/disabled via ADK or UI

    Improve user experience : Remove Starter Prompts Issue: Starter prompt cards waste valuable screen space for users who don't need them Solution: Add a toggle setting allowing to show/hide starter prompts via UI or set it through ADK, as of now the...
    about 1 year ago in IBM watsonx Orchestrate 5 Planned for future release

    Enable filtering by object name/type when importing objects from PDS libraries via AD Connect

    The client is deploying their mainframe applications to production in large PDS libraries that contain hundreds of thousands objects of different type, belonging to several different applications Therefore ingesting a single application into WCA4Z...
    over 1 year ago in watsonx Code Assistant Ideas / watsonx Code Assistant for Z 1 Under review

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