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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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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

Tool calls should have individual configurable timeouts

Currently all tool calls in WxO have a timeout of 2 minutes. This is not configurable at all in Cloud, and in order to configure it in CP4D you must change the timeout for *all* tool calls in the WxO deployment as well as configure timeouts for ot...
7 months ago in IBM watsonx Orchestrate 10 Future consideration

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

Add support for Anthropic models hosted on Azure Foundry

Allow established Anthropic model deployments on Azure Foundry to be leveraged in watsonx Orchestrate.
7 months ago in IBM watsonx Orchestrate 2 Under review

Make the logs that are viewable in Flow Inspector also viewable in Langfuse.

We are currently using Langfuse as our LLMOps tool within WxO, and we are able to review various Agent-related logs and traces through it. Recently, Flow Inspector was released, enabling us to inspect detailed internal logs of tool flows invoked b...
7 months ago in IBM watsonx Orchestrate 0 Future consideration

Knowledge has connectors to MS Sharepoint

Give agent access to her enterprise knowledge while leaving her content in place.
7 months ago in IBM watsonx Orchestrate 1 Planned for future release

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...
4 months ago in IBM watsonx Orchestrate 1 Under review

Asynchronous skill execution to be enabled from Assistant web chat to App connect

There is a use case where an API built using App Connect processes bulk records. As per the current design, the API handles records sequentially, which can result in significant delays when processing large volumes of data. This delay impacts the ...
almost 2 years ago in IBM watsonx Orchestrate 1 Not under consideration

WxO should be able to visualize numeric data without custom widgets and in the regular Web UI

Customer has agents that pull various numeric (time-series) data from backend services like grafana, present the data in a chart form, analyze the data and make various recommendations and summaries based on the analysis. The end users at Verizon ...
4 months ago in IBM watsonx Orchestrate 0 Under review

Ability to control what shows in the default IBM tool catalog

As the number of tools available increases, the time to install them increases. Not every company needs all these tools at their disposal.
over 1 year ago in IBM watsonx Orchestrate 1 Future consideration