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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Post ideas and requests to enhance a product or service. Take a look at ideas others have posted and upvote them if they matter to you,

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  3. Get feedback from the IBM team to refine your idea


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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.

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    Build client virtual folder sort order correction(6.1.3)

    After adding files from mainframe, the virtual folder files are sorted based on the member name of different PDSEs but it's not based on the sorted order of both PDSE and members together. Good to have them sorted based on both so it would be easy...
    over 1 year ago in watsonx Code Assistant Ideas / watsonx Code Assistant for Z 0 Future consideration

    Stateful APIs to utilize agent/s inside my apps

    Stateful APIs to communicate with orchestrate as headless service to be able to design my own interface or utilize agent/s inside my apps the way I like.
    9 months ago in IBM watsonx Orchestrate 1 Functionality already exists

    Enable native uploading and processing of .log files to allow users and teams to submit application and system logs directly for analysis, troubleshooting, and insights.

    .log files are a primary source of truth for understanding system behavior, failures, and performance issues, yet they are often excluded or require manual workarounds (zipping, renaming, copy-pasting). By supporting direct .log file uploads, user...
    9 months ago in IBM watsonx Orchestrate 1 Not under consideration

    Allow change version of automation services

    Currently we can specify version of automation service such as BAW workflow only when we add skills. if we release a newer version of automation service, we have to re-define skill again. it is convenient if we can update version after initial dep...
    about 3 years ago in IBM watsonx Orchestrate 3 Not under consideration

    Private context variables

    Watsonx Orchestrate (wxO) Agentic currently supports context variables for collecting and passing information between agents and tools. The content of the context variables will show up in the trace lots. That is not accepable for some of the cont...
    9 months ago in IBM watsonx Orchestrate 0 Future consideration

    Securely passing context from my web application to Agent

    Watsonx Orchestrate (wxO) Agentic currently has a single select feature, however, the usability of the selection list diminishes as the list grows in length. Some customers are dealing with lists that are hundreds or thousands of items long, so a ...
    9 months ago in IBM watsonx Orchestrate 0 Not under consideration

    VSAM insight AI agent on IBM Z

    Client expressed interest in a VSAM agent (similar to Db2 Agent that is in-plan) for watsonx assistant for Z. Client indicated that VSAM databases on IBM Z holds critical business data, yet extracting actionable insights from them remains a challe...
    9 months ago in IBM watsonx Orchestrate 0 Under review

    AI Agent for Stress test on IBM Z

    At Fall 2025 AI Council, multiple clients indicated that an AI agent for Stress test on Z will be vital to their organization. Donna Dillenberger had indicated that IBM Research is playing with this item, so this requirement should be directed to ...
    9 months ago in watsonx Code Assistant Ideas / watsonx Code Assistant for Z 0 Under review

    Human readable reasoning trace in the chat

    Reasoning trace helps the end-user discover the thinking steps and agent took to answer a prompt. But, there are downsides to the current implementation: End user is shown a technical JSON file that's low on readability The reasoning trace is ...
    9 months ago in IBM watsonx Orchestrate 0 Future consideration

    Disable reasoning trace for agents from the Agent Builder

    Some customers don't want end users to see the reasoning trace, as they don't want to show things like the tools called, or what is happening under the covers to get the response back to the user Note that the trace can already be disabled through...
    9 months ago in IBM watsonx Orchestrate 0 Future consideration

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