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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.

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ideasibm@us.ibm.com - Use this email to suggest enhancements to the Ideas process or request help from IBM for submitting your Ideas.

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Display Action Status on Folders in watsonx Assistant

In watsonx Assistant, each action has a status, and if it is red, it indicates an error. However, when the action is inside a folder, you need to access the folder to check the status. The suggested improvement is to display the status directly on...
over 1 year ago in IBM watsonx Orchestrate 1 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Consistent LLM Responses Through Parameter Control

The watsonsx.Orchestrate product backend leverages Watsonx AI models, which may have predefined default values. As a result, responses can vary for the same query, making it difficult to predict exactly what the LLM will generate within Orchestrat...
about 1 year ago in IBM watsonx Orchestrate 0 Under review